| An adhesive used to bond pieces of wood together.
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| A unit of lumber volume, a rectangular solid nominally 12" x 12" x 1".
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| Rigid form of plastic foam used as a rigid application insulating surface, commonly of polyurethane.
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| A hand tool holding a replaceable blade to sharply score or trim gypsumboard products; a popular brand is a Stanley knife.
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| The standard system for the measurement of lumber; see Board Foot.
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| The wooden structural member that makes up the sloping parallel beams used to support a roof.
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| A short hand saw with very coarse teeth for cutting gypsumboard for door and window frame openings.
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| A type of lumber installed on the exterior walls of a building or structure to act as the finish sheathing.
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| A wooden member that is installed on floor joists to which the finished floor is fastened.
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| A board that is made of several compressed materials; used for sheathing, wallboard, or as an insulation or acoustical barrier.
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| Wooden boards placed in the concrete formwork as for liners to provide a wood-pattern finish to the completed reinforced concrete.
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| A narrow platform, often equipped with a spring and raised off the ground by a ladder, attached to the edge of a swimming pool and extending over the water, used to give divers altitude and lift.
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| Heavy timber used in the construction of the raised platform used for the loading and unloading of trucks.
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| The board against which the tips of rafters are fastened; the top line of a roof; the ridge.
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| . 1. A flat thin piece of sawn lumber, usually long and narrow; lumber less than 2 inches thick. 2. A group of persons having supervisory, investigatory, or advisory powers. 3. A sheet of insulating material carrying circuit elements and terminals so that it can be inserted in an electronic apparatus. 4. A flat panel of compressed fibers. 5. A flat panel used for posting bulletins or as a chalkboard.
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| The process of nailing boards on the outside studding of a house.
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| A trapeze-like seat that is slung from rigging to support a worker; a Bosuns Chair.
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| Building Officials and Code Administrators International, an organization that publishes model building codes.
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| 1. A wine vault or cellar; a wine shop where wine is drawn from barrels. 2. A storeroom or warehouse.
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| Linseed oil that has been thickened by suitable processing with heat or chemicals; bodied oils vary greatly in viscosity; some are little thicker than raw linseed oil; others are almost jelly like.
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| Intermediate coat of paint between priming and finishing.
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| The continuous addition of small amounts of filter aid during the operation of a diatomaceous earth filter.
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| 1. The structural portion of ceramic articles; also refers to the material or mixture from which the article is made. 2. The structural portion of an article covered with ceramic tile. 3. Thickness, consistency, or viscosity of a fluid. 4. See Steel Square.
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| Linseed oil to which enough lead, manganese, or cobalt salts have been added to make the oil harden more rapidly when spread in thin coatings; drying properties accentuated by heating oil to 130 to 200° C.
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| Drying oil treated with driers to shorten the drying time.
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| An outlet on a boiler to permit emptying or discharging of water or sediment in the boiler.
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| Term now seldom used, meaning equivalent to a heating capacity of 33,475 Btu/hr. (983 watts).
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| Standardized, formulaic, or hackneyed language in a contract.
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| The space provided for a hot water or steam boiler, circulating pumps, and other mechanical and electrical equipment; engine room.
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| Boiler furnishing steam at pressures of 15 pounds per square inch gauge or higher (1.05 kg/cm2).
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