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Carpentry Basics

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






2. A two-dimensional drawing used for making up prints.






3. Depth to which soil freezes in a particular area.






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






5. Walkway that extends along a street and borders the building lot.






6. Height of the first floor after finish materials have been applied - in relation to the benchmark established on the construction site.






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






8. Services provided to the public - requiring electrical and plumbing hookups in a building.






9. Distance between center points of framing members or other building components.






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. The various levels of the lot surface before any finish grading takes places. Also called existing grade.






14. Stake placed in the corner of a lot when the lot is being surveyed and its exact boundaries established.






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






16. Facility ready-mixed concrete is mixed to specification - then discharged into transit-mix trucks for delivery to a job site.






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






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






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






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






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






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


23. One of the slopes required on a lot to ensure water drainage away from the building.






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






25. Bolt use to secure sill plates - columns - and beams to concrete or other masonry.






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






27. Ingredient that binds together sand and gravel in a concrete mixture after water is added.






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






29. Small nail driven into the top of a corner stake (hub) to identify the exact corner of the property.






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






31. Heavy steel wire welded together in a grid pattern and use to reinforce concrete slabs resting directly on the ground. Also called wire mesh.






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






33. Chemical reaction that takes place when water is combined with cement - sand - and gravel in a concrete mix. Hydration cause the concrete to harden.






34. A precast block - solid or hollow - used in the construction of walls. Also referred to as concrete block.






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






36. Foundation system that combines concrete foundation walls with a concrete floor slab that rests directly on a bed of gravel that has been placed over the ground. Also called slab-on-grade.






37. 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.






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






39. Cavity dug in the ground.






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






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






42. Plan included in a set of prints showing the size of the lot - location of the building on the lot - grades - and all other information needed to perform work required before construction of the foundation begins.






43. Unit of measurement of an angle equal to 1/60 of a minute. (A minute is 1/60 of a degree.)






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






45. Digging trenches for foundation footings.






46. Drawing in a set of prints that gives a plan view as well as section views of the foundation of a building.






47. Area between the street curb and sidewalk where a lawn or other vegetation may be planted.






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






49. Process of retaining moisture of freshly place concrete to ensure proper hydration.






50. Trade term for placing concrete.