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A

  • Accelerated Weather Testing
  • Acrylated Rubber – Acid Resistant
  • Acrylic Resin
  • Adjustable Tip
  • After Tack
  • Air Bricks
  • Air Brush
  • Alkali-resisting Paints
  • Aluminium Primer for Wood
  • Amine Bloom
  • Angle Bead
  • Anti Fouling Paints/Coatings
  • Architect
  • Architrave
  • Artex
  • Asbestos
  • Atrium

B

  • Back Putty
  • Bagging
  • Baluster/Spindle
  • Barge Board
  • Batch
  • Batch Sampling and Numbers
  • Bay – Bow Window
  • Bed Joint
  • Belt Sander
  • Bill of Quantities
  • Biocide
  • Block Printing
  • Blockboard
  • Blocking
  • Booking
  • Bottom Rail
  • Breeze Block/ Concrete Clinker
  • Bridging
  • Bring forward
  • British Standard Code of Practice
  • Broken colour
  • Building Inspector
  • Building Regulations
  • Building Research Establishment
  • Building Surveyor
  • Bulk Head
  • Burning Off
  • Butt Hinge
  • Butt Joint

C

  • C.O.S.H.H. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
  • Capillary Action
  • Catalyst
  • Chair rail
  • Chalk Line
  • Chalking
  • Chamfer
  • Chase
  • Check Grain Roller
  • Cheesy
  • Chipboard
  • Chipping
  • Chlorinated Rubber
  • Cissing
  • City and Guilds
  • Clear Coat
  • Clerk of Works
  • Client
  • Cohesion
  • Colour Recorder/Spectrometer
  • Colourwash
  • Compatibility
  • Complimentary Colours
  • 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
  • Copal
  • Coping
  • Copolymer
  • Corbel
  • Cornice
  • Corrosion of Steel
  • Crackle finish
  • Cratering
  • Crinkling
  • Cross Hatch Adhesion Testing
  • Cross Lining
  • Crow’s Footing
  • CSCS Card
  • Cup Gun
  • Curing

D

  • Dado
  • De-Natured Wood
  • Degradation
  • Designer
  • Discolouration
  • Domestic Client
  • Door and window furniture
  • Dormer Window
  • Double Dipper
  • DPC Damp Proof Course
  • Dragging
  • Drop Pattern
  • Drum Mixers
  • Dry Film Thickness Gauge
  • Dry wood Rot
  • Drying Time
  • Dust Dry
  • Dust sheet

E

  • Eaves
  • Emery Paper
  • Epoxy Paint
  • Erosion
  • Escutcheon
  • Estimating
  • External Mix Nozzle
  • Extra Long Pile Roller

F

  • Facade
  • Facing Putty
  • False Body
  • False Body
  • Fan overgrainer
  • Fascia Board
  • Finger Plate
  • Finishing Coat
  • First fix
  • Fitch Brushes
  • Flame Cleaning
  • Flexible palette knife
  • Flogger
  • Fresco
  • Frieze
  • Frog
  • Frost Damaged Water Based Paint
  • Frottage
  • Fungicidal Solution

G

  • Gable
  • Galvanised Steel
  • Gargoyles
  • Garnet Paper
  • Georgian Wire Glass
  • Glass Chisel Knife
  • Glass Cutter
  • Glass Paper
  • Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC)
  • Glasscloth Wallcovering
  • Glassfibre Wallcovering
  • Glazier
  • Gold Size
  • Graining Comb
  • Graining Rocker
  • Grasscloth Wallpaper
  • GRP
  • Gypsum

H

  • Hacking Knife
  • Hammer and Chisel Gun
  • Hammer Finish
  • Hard Dry/Through Dry
  • Hard Stopper
  • Hardener
  • Hawk – Mortar Board
  • Hemp
  • Hod
  • Hot Air Gun
  • Hydrochloric Acid

I

  • Impact resistance
  • Impervious
  • Institute of Corrosion (icorr)
  • Intercoat Adhesion
  • Intermediate Coat
  • Internal mix nozzle
  • Intumescent

J

  • Japan
  • Japanning

K

  • Kicking Plate
  • Knot Brush
  • Knotting

L

  • Leafing/Flake Aluminium Primer
  • Leather Roller
  • Litmus Paper
  • Long Pile Roller

M

  • Making Good
  • Medium Pile Rollers
  • Mohair Roller
  • Monochromatic Colour Scheme
  • Mottler
  • Mottling

N

  • Needle Gun
  • Newel Post

O

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

P

  • Paint Cup
  • Paint Research Association (PRA)
  • Painting and Decorating Association (PDA)
  • Pan Mixer
  • Particle- Board (Plywood -Chipboard)
  • PASMA Training Card
  • Peelable
  • Pencil Brush
  • Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Petrifying Liquid
  • Pigment
  • Pinhole/Holiday Detector
  • Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA)
  • Principal Contractor
  • Principal Designer/ Archtitect

Q

  • Quoin

R

  • Rag Rolling
  • Rag Rolling
  • RAL Colour Range
  • Re-coat Time
  • Rebars
  • Residual Tack
  • Reversible Tip
  • Risk Assessment
  • Rust remover

S

  • Sand Paper
  • Saponification
  • Scabbling Machine
  • Scrutch
  • Seam Roller
  • Shading
  • Sharp Coat
  • Shelf Life
  • Short Pile Roller
  • Sintering
  • Site Induction
  • Site Signage.
  • Size
  • Sizing
  • Snagging
  • Soffit Board
  • Solvent
  • Spalling
  • Spectrophotometer
  • Spike Roller
  • Spike Shoes
  • Sponging Off
  • Sponging On
  • Stabilising Solution
  • Sticker
  • Stipple
  • Stippling
  • Stopper
  • Striker Brush
  • String
  • Surface Dry/Touch Dry

T

  • Tack
  • Tack Rag/Tack Cloth
  • Tanalised Timber
  • Tannic Acid in Wood
  • Tape Test
  • Tensile Strength
  • Terebine
  • Thinners
  • Thixotropic
  • Tinsley Gauge
  • Tinting
  • Tip Size
  • Top Coating
  • Touch Dry
  • Touch Up
  • Translucent Wood Finishes
  • Turks Head -Striker Brush
  • Turpentine
  • Two Knot Brush
  • Two Pack

U

  • Undercoat
  • uPVC Unplasticised Polyvinyl Chloride

V

  • Vac-Vac Treated Timber
  • Vacu-blast
  • Varnish
  • Vehicle
  • Viscosity
  • Viscosity Cup-Ford Cup
  • Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)

W

  • Wallcovering Adhesive
  • Waste Disposal
  • Wet and Dry
  • Wide width wallcoverings
  • Woodgrain Effect
  • Worker/Tradesperson

X

  • Xylol/Xylene

Y

  • Yellowing

Z

  • Zinc Coated Steel
  • Zinc Salts
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