| Baseboard at a stairway.
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| In gypsumboard finishing, the outside edges of the paper joint tape that have been sanded to improve adhesion and rce waviness.
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| To pare or slice off in thin layers.
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| A transparent opening in a roof for the admittance of light.
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| To design or build a very tall building.
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| A very tall building; compare with Groundscraper.
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| Continuous, individual support used to hold reinforcing bars in the proper position.
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| 1. The formwork used for the pouring or placing of a concrete slab. 2. A type of manufactured metal decking which is made expressly to receive a final layer of poured concrete.
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| Welded-wire fabric in sheets or rolls used to reinforce concrete slabs.
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| A flat, horizontal, molded layer of reinforced concrete, cast and cured in other than its final position.
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| 1. A cast concrete floor. 2. Flat section of floor or roof either on the ground or supported by beams or walls.
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| 1.Extra time in a CPM schle; also called Float. 2. Hanging loose without tension. 3. Insufficiently diligent; negligent. 4. Slow in business activity.
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| Non-metallic solid material entrapped in weld metal or between weld metal and base metal.
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| A by-product smelting iron, lead, or copper ore; used for construction aggregate; cinder.
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| A term denoting the process whereby lime putty is produced from quicklime; slaking consists of adding quicklime to water and allowing the resulting slurry to age for at least two weeks.
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| Hydrated lime.
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| Intentionally and wrongfully placing a cloud on title to real estate.
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| Flat-grained lumber.
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| Filler used to considerable extent in asphalt mixtures and in roofing mastic.
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| A form of geologically hardened clay, easily split into thin sheets.
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| see Sledgehammer.
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| A large heavy hammer that is wielded with both hands; also called a Sledge.
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| 1. A timber laid on the ground to support a floor joist. 2. A wood strip, usually for a wood floor system, which is fastened directly to a concrete floor thus facilitating the installation of the finished floor.
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| Rooms in which people sleep.
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| The ratio of the unbraced length of a column to the radius of gyration.
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| Wood veneer that is sliced off a log, bolt, or flitch with a knife.
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| A tool often used by the plasterer in place of the darby. It is made of a thin board beveled on both sides, about 4 foot long and 6 to 8 inches wide held by the thicker edge.
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| see Water Slide.
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| 1. To move in continuous contact with a smooth surface, 2. A fresh tile wall that has buckled or sagged; this condition may be caused by excessive mortar, insufficient lime in the mortar, or excessive moisture in the scratch coat; a slide also may result if the surface is slick or the mortar is too soft. 3. A small landslide.
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| An exterior glass door mounted above and below on tracks for ease in movement.
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