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WORD-OF-THE-MONTH ARCHIVE - 2004
Posted July 2004
Normally found in Section 06100 - Rough Carpentry. (Section 061000 - Rough Carpentry per 2004 MasterFormat.)
grounds: 1. 1" by 2" strips of wood nailed around windows and doors to serve as a guide to make plaster level with the molding or brown coat in a plaster job. The strips on the bottoms of the studs are also used as a nailing surface for molding. Grounds are important in a plaster job; without them, the plasterer has no precise guideline as to just how thick the brown coat should be. 2. Nailing strips on masonry walls for attaching trim or furring to.
Posted August 2004
Puddle: The aggitation of freshly poured concrete with a stick or the like to help eliminate voids or air bubbles. Another term for "rodding."
Posted September 2004. From the 1997 AIA Document A201 - General Conditions of the Contract for Construction.
Project: The total construction of which the Work performed under the Contract Documents may be the whole or a part and which may include construction by the Owner or by separate contractors.
Posted October 2004
Horsefeathers: Fill-in pieces used when preparing a roof for new roofing material. the existing roof tabs will be curled up. The roofer will clip these off and fill them in with nailing. This, then, will supply a flat surface for the new roofing material.
Horsefeathers could be another name for feathering strips; strips used to feather-in uneven surfaces in an existing roof before installing a new roof.
Posted November 2004. From the "Construction Glossary, An Encyclopedic Reference and Manual" by J. Stewart Stein, AIA, FCSI. 1980 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Playa:
1. Flat floor of a closed basin in an arid region. It may be occupied by an intermittent lake.
2. Flat or nearly flat low part of an enclosed basin or temporary lake without outlet. It is also know as a dry lake. Included are dry, moist, crystal body, compound, lime pan, and artificial playas.
Posted December 2004. From the "Construction Glossary, An Encyclopedic Reference and Manual" by J. Stewart Stein, AIA, FCSI. 1980 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Lueders Lines:
This month's Word of the Month is used in relation to aluminum.
1. Surface markings resulting from localized flow, which appear on some alloys after light forming. They lie approximately parallel to the direction of maximum shear stress and appear as depressions when forming is in tension and as elevations when in compression.
Unless indicated otherwise, selections are From the "Illustrated Dictionary of Building Terms"
by Tom Philbin. 1997 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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