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Carpentry Basics

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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. A foundation system use on a sloped and hillside lots. The walls and footings are shaped like steps.






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






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






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






23. Legal right-of-way provision on another person's propery.






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






25. 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.






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






27. Measurement; The distance between two points.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Cavity dug in the ground.






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






32. Graduated scale that gives fractions of a degree on leveling instruments.






33. Directon based on the compass points north - south - east - and west.






34. Piece of land or property having established boundaries.






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. Digging trenches for foundation footings.






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






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






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






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






46. Type of foundation with the footing extending from only one side of the foundation wall.






47. 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.






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






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






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