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A

  • Air Bricks
  • Aluminium Primer for Wood
  • Angle Bead
  • Architect
  • Architrave
  • Arris
  • Asbestos
  • Atrium

B

  • Back Putty
  • Backing Coat
  • Baluster/Spindle
  • Barge Board
  • Batch
  • Batch Sampling and Numbers
  • Bay – Bow Window
  • Bed Joint
  • Belt Sander
  • Bill of Quantities
  • Blockboard
  • Blockwork
  • Bond
  • Box guttering
  • Breeze Block/ Concrete Clinker
  • Building Inspector
  • Building Regulations
  • Building Research Establishment
  • Building Surveyor
  • Bulk Head
  • Butt Hinge

C

  • C.O.S.H.H. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
  • Capillary Action
  • Cast Iron
  • Chair rail
  • Chalk Line
  • Chalking
  • Chamfer
  • Chase
  • Cheesy
  • Chipboard
  • Chipping
  • Cissing
  • Cistern
  • Clerk of Works
  • Client
  • Column – Stanchion
  • Concrete
  • Conduit
  • Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM)
  • Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS)
  • Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
  • Construction Phase Plan (CDM 2015)
  • Contractor
  • Contracts Manager
  • Coping
  • Corbel
  • Cornice
  • Corrosion of Steel
  • Cratering
  • CSCS Card
  • Curing

D

  • Dado
  • De-Natured Wood
  • Designer
  • Discolouration
  • Domestic Client
  • Door and window furniture
  • Dormer Window
  • DPC Damp Proof Course
  • Drum Mixers
  • Dry wood Rot
  • Dust sheet

E

  • Eaves
  • Emery Paper
  • Erosion
  • Escutcheon
  • Estimating

F

  • Facade
  • False Body
  • Fascia Board
  • Finger Plate
  • Finishing Coat
  • First fix
  • Flame Cleaning
  • Fresco
  • Frieze
  • Frog
  • Frost Damaged Water Based Paint
  • Fungicidal Solution

G

  • Gable
  • Galvanised Steel
  • Gargoyles
  • Garnet Paper
  • Georgian Wire Glass
  • Glass Chisel Knife
  • Glass Cutter
  • Glass Paper
  • Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC)
  • GRP
  • Gypsum

H

  • Hacking Knife
  • Hammer and Chisel Gun
  • Hammer Finish
  • Hardener
  • Hawk – Mortar Board
  • Hod
  • Hydrochloric Acid

K

  • Kicking Plate
  • Knot Brush
  • Knotting

L

  • Leafing/Flake Aluminium Primer
  • Litmus Paper

M

  • Monochromatic Colour Scheme

N

  • Needle Gun
  • Newel Post

O

  • Opaque Finish
  • Orange Peel
  • Orbital Sander
  • OSB (Oriented strand board)
  • Osmosis
  • Overlapping Seam

P

  • Pan Mixer
  • Particle- Board (Plywood -Chipboard)
  • PASMA Training Card
  • Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA)
  • Principal Contractor
  • Principal Designer/ Archtitect

Q

  • Quoin

R

  • Rebars
  • Risk Assessment
  • Rust remover

S

  • Sand Paper
  • Scabbling Machine
  • Scrutch
  • Site Induction
  • Site Signage.
  • Snagging
  • Soffit Board
  • Spalling
  • Spike Roller
  • Spike Shoes
  • Stabilising Solution
  • Sticker
  • Striker Brush
  • String

T

  • Tanalised Timber
  • Tannic Acid in Wood
  • Translucent Wood Finishes
  • Turks Head -Striker Brush

U

  • uPVC Unplasticised Polyvinyl Chloride

V

  • Vac-Vac Treated Timber

W

  • Waste Disposal
  • Worker/Tradesperson

Z

  • Zinc Coated Steel

 

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