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Carpentry Architectural Plans And Building Codes
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1. A structure that projects out from a sloping roof to form another roofed area to provide a surface for the installation of windows.
Dormer
Elevation
Nonconforming
National Building Codes
2. Multiple drawings.
Floor plans
Set backs
Hearth
Orthographics
3. Boundaries established by distances and compass directions.
Dormer
Metes and bounds
Bearing
Bifold door
4. Vertical members that enclose the space between treads.
Vapor barrier
Floor plans
Risers
Bifold door
5. Area communities are divided into two separate types of buildings that can be built in the area.
Zones
Finish schedules
Risers
Casing
6. Direction an installed door will open.
Contour interval
Vapor barrier
Specifications guide
Swing
7. Pages of a set of construction drawings showing the walls as viewed from above.
Zoning regulations
Bearing
Finish schedules
Floor plans
8. See National building Codes.
Building codes
Point of beginning
Hose bibbs
Architect's scale
9. The pages of a set of prints that show a building from above - looking down.
Windows schedules
Sidelight
Plan view
Plot plan
10. Attic access or drain through a parapet wall.
Full section
Areaway
Scuttle
Topography
11. Horizontal finish members in a staircase on which the feet of a person ascending or descending the stairs are placed.
Specifications writer
Scale
Tread
Casement window
12. A fixed-sash window for the roof that provides light only - no ventilation.
Crawl space
Skylight
Contour interval
Building codes
13. A person who writes supplemental information for construction projects to include any information that cannot be communicated in drawings or schedules.
Modular measurement
Windows schedules
Specifications writer
Zoning regulations
14. Older process of creating copies of construction drawings where the result is blue with white lines and letters.
Floor plans
Blueprinting
Bifold door
Plot plan
15. A reference point for determining elevators during the construction of a building.
Slab-on-grade foundation
Truss
Benchmark
Zones
16. Distance buildings must be kept from the property lines.
Set backs
Green space
Orthographics
Pocket door
17. An area of land that cannot be built upon because to provides access to a structure or utilities.
National Building Codes
Easement
Tread
Skylight
18. A person who writes supplemental information for construction projects to include any information that cannot be communicated in drawings or schedules.
National Building Codes
Zones
Swing
Specifications writer
19. Pages of a set of construction drawings showing the cross section of the building.
Specifications guide
Architect's scale
Full section
Areaway
20. Doors that are hinged to each other in pairs as well as one being hinged to the jamb.
Scale
Plan view
Point of beginning
Bifold door
21. Doors that are hinged to each other in pairs as well as one being hinged to the jamb.
Awning window
Sidelight
Crawl space
Bifold door
22. A drawing showing a birds eye view of the lot - position of the building - and other pertinent information; also called site plan.
Truss
Hose bibbs
Crawl space
Plot plan
23. Informational chart found on a set of prints providing pertinent information on doors of the building.
Door schedules
Risers
Areaway
Scale
24. Term used to describe buildings that do not fit the local zoning laws.
Nonconforming
Sliding
Awning window
Vapor barrier
25. The proportional reduction of each line in a drawing of a building that clearly shows the information and can be handled conveniently.
Scale
Green space
Tread
Finish schedules
26. Scale used between lines of a contour map.
Blueprinting
Crawl space
Floor plans
Contour interval
27. An area of land that cannot be built upon because to provides access to a structure or utilities.
Louver
Full section
Easement
Architect's scale
28. Ruler used to area and read measurements in various proportions and scale.
29. A type of window in which the sash is hinged at the edge and usually swings outward.
Scale
Modular measurement
Point of beginning
Casement window
30. A detailed description of the land surface.
Sliding
Beam pocket
Topography
Green space
31. Lines on a drawing representing a certain elevation of land.
Contour line
Scale
National Building Codes
Orthographics
32. Molding used to trim around doors - windows - and other openings.
Full section
Finish schedules
Casing
Sidelight
33. Orthographic drawing showing only one side of the outside of the building at a distance of about 100'.
Set backs
Door schedules
Partial sections elevations
Specifications guide
34. An area near a fireplace - usually paved and extending out into a room - around which a wood floor installation must be framed.
Crawl space
Specifications guide
Casing
Hearth
35. Areas of a building site devoted to natural vegetation.
Green space
Truss
Louver
Contour line
36. Building plan that shows a cross-section of the building as if it were sliced to reveal its skeleton.
Finish schedules
Partition
Section view
Crawl space
37. Boundaries established by distances and compass directions.
Sliding
Partition
Metes and bounds
Pocket door
38. Pages of a set of construction drawings showing the walls as viewed from above.
Floor plans
Full section
Contour line
Hearth
39. Doors - usually two for a single opening - that are mounted on rollers and tracks so that they slide by each other.
Detail
Sidelight
Elevation
Bypass doors
40. Multiple drawings.
Orthographics
Windows schedules
Variance
Vapor barrier
41. An indentation in a foundation wall where a girder rests.
Beam pocket
Dormer
Sliding
Louver
42. Written or printed directions of construction details for a building - sometimes referred to as specs.
Contour interval
Detail
Specifications
Modular measurement
43. A notion granted by the zoning board of appeals in a community to change the zoning code due to hardships imposed by the zoning regulations.
Variance
Topography
Nonconforming
Set backs
44. Written or printed directions of construction details for a building - sometimes referred to as specs.
Specifications
Blueprinting
National Building Codes
Floor plans
45. Vertical members that enclose the space between treads.
Risers
Specifications guide
Sliding
Point of beginning
46. Older process of creating copies of construction drawings where the result is blue with white lines and letters.
Skylight
Awning window
Blueprinting
Zones
47. A notion granted by the zoning board of appeals in a community to change the zoning code due to hardships imposed by the zoning regulations.
Louver
Finish schedules
Variance
Sidelight
48. An opening for ventilation consisting of horizontal slats installed at an angle to exclude rain - light - and vision - but to allow the passage of air.
Louver
Partial sections elevations
Bypass doors
Specifications
49. An interior wall separating one portion of a building from another.
Partition
Hearth
Casing
Beam pocket
50. A framework containing small lights of glass placed on one or both sides of the entrance door.
Green space
Blueprinting
Awning window
Sidelight