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Carpentry Basics

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1. Small sunken area allowing light or air into a basement window that is partially below the grade level around the building. Also called window well.






2. Construction material of cement - sand - and gravel. Used for foundations - entire buildings - flatwork - and many other types of structures.






3. Piece of land or property having established boundaries.






4. Point of elevation reference - established by local authorities - from which other elevations in the area are measured. Often referred to as the point of beginning (POB).






5. Narrow space between a floor unit and the ground.






6. Metal connectors that provide a solid connection between the foundation and structural members to resist uplift and lateral forces.






7. Letter or group of letters representing a term of phrase.






8. Survey instrument use to establish and verify grades and elevations and to set up level points over long distances.

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9. Truck equipped with a large drum concrete mixer for delivery of ready-mixed concrete to the job site.






10. One of the various levels of the lot surface after grading work has been completed.






11. Ground and calcined (heated) mixture of limestone - shells - cement rock - silica sand - clay - shale - iron ore - gypsum - and clinker.






12. Metal connector use to fasten the foundation to the side of the sill plate.






13. Line set up on batter-boards to represent outside face of the exterior wall of a building.






14. Pictorial representation of a or material component used on prints; commonly standardized.






15. Three-dimensional view that shows three sides of an object or structure






16. Removing or adding soil to the surface of the lot so that there is enough slope for surface water to flow away from the building.






17. Base of a foundation system. It bears directly on the soil.






18. Metall connector used to fasten a sill plate to the foundation.






19. Distance from the property line to the side of a building.






20. Earth material consisting of fine mineral particles that are midway in size between sand and clay.






21. Soil or gravel use to fill the space between a completed foundation wall and the excavated areas on one or both sides of the wall.






22. Wood plate fastened to the top of a foundation wall. it provides a nailing base for floor joists or studs. Also called mudsill.






23. Line (identified by letters) that cuts through a part of a structure on an elevation or plan view drawing. It refers to a separate section view or detail drawing given for that area.






24. Greatest amount of compression that a material can withstand before it fractures.






25. Level board nailed to stakes driven into the ground. String is attached to batterboards to identify property lines - building lines - and pier locations.






26. Thin mixture of cement - and water use for patching and leveling.






27. Deformed steel bars placed in concrete to increase its ability to withstand weight and pressure. They also help tie together structural concrete members. Also called rebar.






28. Steel plates (3' square) with an oblong hole in the middle to allow the plates to be adjustable in case an anchor bolt is not centered on the sill plate. Bearing plates significantly increase the strength of anchor bolt connections.






29. Recorded - legal boundaries of a piece of property.






30. Type of foundation that features a narrow space between the bottom of a floor unit and ground. Also call basementless foundation.






31. Unit of measurement of angles equal to 1/60 of a degree.






32. Digging trenches for foundation footings.






33. One of the lines drawn on a survey plan and some plot plans pass through points having the same elevation on a lot.






34. Type of foundation constructed with a stem wall supported by spread footing.






35. One of the various levels of the lot surface after grading work has been completed.






36. Condition that occurs when aggregate settles because the mixture is too thin to support the aggregate.






37. Anchor bolt positioned in a concrete form at the time the concrete is being placed. Its purpose is to fasten the sill plate to the top of the wall.






38. An imaginary straight line extending from the telescope of a builder's level or transit-level to the object being sighted.






39. Concrete mixed at a batch plant and delivered by truck to the job site.






40. Fine-grained natural earth material that is plastic when wet and compact and brittle when dry.






41. Masonry or wood wall constructed to hold back a bank of earth.






42. Amount of water use in concrete mix in relation to the amount of cement. Major factor in the compressive strength of concrete.






43. Recorded - legal boundaries of a piece of property.






44. Square - round - or battered concrete base set in the soil to directly support posts or columns. Also used to directly support grade beams.






45. Ditch dug in the ground down to bearing soil for foundation footings.






46. Direction - size - and arrangement of the wood fibers in a piece of lumber.






47. Drawing in which inches or inch-fractions represent one foot of the actual measurement of a building.






48. Concrete that contains steel reinforcement (rebar) or fiberglass reinforcing rod to strengthen it.






49. Cavity dug in the ground.






50. Distance from the property line to the front of a building.