Visual DictionaryBSCI 2300 Materials I

Spring 2010

Air Barrier Paper

A composite sheet material used as a vapor retarded to control air, water, and permit water vapor

Attic Ventilation

Opening that allows air to flow into the attic of the space below the roof sheathing along with the removal of heat through the upper most part of

the roof. This helps keep the attic cool in the summer and moisture in the attic to evaporate.

Gable Vent

Attic Ventilation

Turbine Vent Ridge Vent

Soffit Vent

Back HoeAn excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn

back ward to move earth. Typically used for excavating job sites. Bucket was 23” in width.

Batter Boards

A temporary frame build just outside the

corner of an excavation to carry

marks that lie on the surface planes of the basement that will be built in the excavation.

Brick Arches

Roman Arch: an arch with a Keystone

Centering: Temporary framework for a arch that allows you to place the bricks before entering the keystone

Jack Arch

Brick BondsRowlock

Brick Bonds

Sailor: brick laid vertically with the largest face side exposed

Running Bond: a bond that contains all stretchers.

Brick BondsSoldier

Stretcher

Brick Bonds

Header

Common Bond: a running bond course, and every fifth, sixth, seventh course there is a pattern ran containing a runner and header alternating.

Brick Sizes

Modular: 3 5/8” x 7 5/8” x 2 ¼”

Brick Sizes

Queen Size: 8” x 3” x 2 ¾”

Bulldozer

A large, powerful tractor having a vertical blade at the front end for moving earth, tree stumps, rocks

Cladding

Stone

EIFS

Cladding

Brick

Wood Board

Cladding

Wood Shingles: shingles made from sawn logs used in cladding or roofing

installed in an overlapping fashion

Wood Shakes: shingles made from split logs mainly used for covering a

top of a house.

Code Requirements

Measurement: 2.5’ x 5’; 12.5 SQF Area. The

window is 4” AFF.

IBC Requirements for a Window: Min opening of

5.7 SQF, Min Height of 2’, Min Width of 1.33’, and

less than or equal to 3.66’ sill height AFF.

The window does meet the requirements.

Stair

Riser: 6 ¾”Tread: 12”

IBC CODERiser: 7 - 3/4” Max (no more than 3/8” deviation)

Tread: 11” min depth

Concrete Joints

Control Joint: an intentional cut in the concrete to prevent

cracking due to expansion in the concrete

Crack in the Control Joint

Isolations Joint: relieves flexural stress due to the vertical movement in the slab

on grade concrete. Isolation from the slab of concrete and the concrete wall.

CMU

12” x 8” x 16”

Width:12”

Width: 8”

CMU

1 CMU= 3 courses of brick

Doors

Exterior Flushed Door

Exterior Panel Door

Panel

Bottom Rail Lock Rail Stile

Top Rail

DoorSidelight: A tall, narrow window beside the door

Transom: A window directly above the door letting light in

Electrical Components

Service Head: A device that protects the electrical wires as they

enter the house.

Underground Transformer Box: electrical device that changes the voltage of an alternating current

usually entering a type of neighborhood.

Electrical Components

Electric Meter: device that measures how much

electricity was used by a dwelling.

Service Panel: To control the flow of electricity. It has

breakers that allows to turn electricity off and on in separate places.

Duplex Receptacle: An outlet to plug in electrical devices.

Framing Elements#1 Anchor Bolt #2 Sill Plate

#3 Floor Joist

Framing Elements

#4 Sub Flooring #5 Sole Plate

Framing Elements

#6 Stud #7 Top Plate

Framing Elements

#8 Stringer #9 Ceiling Joist

Framing Elements

#10 Rafter #11 Roof Decking#11 Roof Decking (Sheathing)

Front End Loader

A piece of earth moving equipment that scoops or loads soil with it’s bucket. It differs from a bulldozer because it runs on wheels instead of a track, and a backhoe because it

doesn’t have a bucket on the front

Gypsum Board

A common material composed of gypsum plaster compressed between sheets of paper and kiln dried.

Heat Pump

Air-Handling Unit: generally uses electric resistant heating for back up but some use gas.

Compressor: Conditions and circulates air that is temperature

controlled.

Advantage: Heat pump systems have a rapid response time.

Disadvantage: A Heat Pump may need a backup system to effectively heat a building in very cold climates.

Insulation

Blanket/ Batt Insulation: Batts are precut, whereas blankets are available in continuous rolls.

Compressing the material reduces its effectiveness.

Foam Insulation: a 2 component mixture that is sprayed from a nozzle

into unfinished wall and ceiling cavities.

Insulation is a material that reduces unwanted heat loss or gain and can decrease the energy demands of heating and cooling systems.

Insulation

Loose Fill: materials can be blown into hard-to-reach

areas are made of recycled materials.

Foam Board: a type of insulation sandwiched around used for

ceilings, floors, walls, and roofs.

Lintel

Concrete horizontal beam that usually supports the masonry above a window or door opening.

Mortar

Raked Joint: 3/8” tooled joint most likely using Type N mortar.

Concave Joint: 3/8” tooled joint most likely using Type N mortar.

Oriented Strand Board

OSB (non-veneered): Composed of long strands of wood fibers oriented in specific directions and bonded together

under pressure.

Plumbing

Water Closet: 3” required drainage pipe.

Manufactured Tub Unit: Manufactured Tub set in during framing prior to

gypsum board being applied.

Vent Through Roof (VTR: Releases the

sewer Gas into the air and freely allowing the drain system to vent

itself.

Plumbing

Lavatory: Pipe size required is 1 ½” drainage pipe.

Drop In Kitchen Sink: the counter top had a precut hole to insert the sink

into.

Plywood

Wood panel composed of an odd numbers of wood veneer bonded together under pressure.

Veneer: a thin covering over another surface for a more aesthetically facing.

Radiant Barrier

It is foil like material that has a reflective surface and repels radiation away from the house to cool the it.

Rebar

This is #3 rebar which is 3/8” thick in diameter which is graded 40. Deformations are to help bond with the

concrete.

Steep Rood Drainage

Down Spout: Metal pipe structure that connects to the gutter and allows the controlled water to flow to the ground.

Gutter: A metal pan that stretches the linear length of the outside of

the roof at the eave.

Splash Block: It breaks precipitation from the downspout on the ground and

funnels the water where desired.

Steep Roof Materials

Metal Panel Roof: typically used galvanized or aluminized steel

Underlayment: A secondary weather barrier with better

resistance to tearing, moisture, and

ultraviolet rays.

Steep Roof Shapes

Gable Roof

Steep Roof Terms

No Fascia Turbine

Steep Roof TermsGable Vent

Eave: horizontal edge at low point of the roof slope

Valley: trough formed by 2 roof slopes

Rake: The exterior angled piece that extends from eave to ridge

Steep Roof Terms

Soffit Vent

Ridge: The level intersection of 2 planes of a roof.

Ridge Vent

Fascia: Exposed vertical face of

an eave.

Soffit: The under surface of a horizontal element of a building.

Stone

Coursed Ashlars

Random Rubble

Coursed Rubble

Vapor Retarder

A Vapor Retarded is a layer of material intended to obstruct the passage of water vapor through a building assembly. Place the warm-in-winter side of the framed building.

Waterproofing

A material applied to the outside of a foundation to keep moisture out of a building which is loosely applied here.

Weep Hole

Permits drainage of moisture that accumulates inside a brick wall component.

Welded Wire Fabric

A grid of steel rods that are welded together and used to reinforce a concrete slab. The grid used in

this slab is 6”x 6”.

Windows

Single Hinged Sliding Windows: Only one sash slides up and down.

Windows

Casement Window: Out swinging hinged window.

Double Hung Window: 2 overlapped slashes that both

slide horizontally up and down.