visual dictionary-stiffback (part2)

Front End Loader

• Front end loader is used in the early stages like a backhoe, but is not meant for digging. It is used to move dirt and gravel or anything necessary. It doesn’t just push dirt like a bulldozer, it also picks it up

Gypsum Board

• Gypsum board is gypsum in between two sheets of paper. A material used for walls and ceilings. Also known as sheet rock or drywall.

Heat Pump

• Compressor/Evaporator• Air Handling Unit

Insulation

• Insulation is a material used that has a low conductivity to help keep heat and cold air through the structure or assembly.

Insulation

• Batt/Blanket insulation

Insulation

• Loose Filled

Insulation

• Foam

Insulation

• Rigid

Lintel

• A lintel is a beam that carries a load of an opening.

Mortar

• Concave mortar joints are troweled

½ “

Mortar

• Flush mortar joints are troweled

3/8”

Oriented Strand Board

• A type of sheathing similar to plywood. It is not veneered, and it is strands of wood that is bonded together by pressure in specific directions. Its typical dimensions are 4’ by 8’.

Plumbing

• Drop-in Sink

Plumbing

• Manufactured Shower and tub

Plumbing

• This plumbing vent is letting the gas from plumbing pipes escape through the roof instead of coming back into the house.

Plumbing

• A lavatory is a sink. This one uses a 1.5” piping to drain it.

Plumbing

• Water Closet• Uses a typical 3” pipe to

drain

Plywood

• Plywood is a wood panel composed of an odd number of layers of wood veneer bonded together under pressure. Veneer is a thin layer or sheet.

Radiant Barrier

Rebar#5 rebar. Measured 5/8”

The deformations help it to grip the concrete and make it stonger

Steep Roof Drainage

• Gutter-channel that collects rainwater and snowmelt at the eave of a roof

• Downspout- vertical piping used to drain water from roof to lower level or ground.

Steep Roof Drainage

• Splashblock-small piece of concrete or plastic used to divert water at bottom of the downspout

Steep Roof Materials

• Underlayment- Underlayment helps keep moisture and any penetration out of the sheathing.

Steep Roof Materials

• Clay tile roof

Steep Roof Materials

• Asphalt shingle roof• Shingle-small unit of

water resistant material nailed in overlapping fashion to render a wall or sloping roof water tight.

Steep Roof Materials

• Metal Panel roof• Aluminum steel

Steep Roof Shapes

• Gable

Steep Roof Shapes

• Gambrel

Steep Roof Shapes

• Hip

Hipped roof

Steep Roof Shapes

• Mansard

Steep Roof Terms

• Ridge-level intersection of two roof planes in a gable vent.

• Fascia-exposed vertical face of an eave.

• Eave-horizontal edge at the low side of a roof.

Steep Roof Terms

• Valley-trough formed by the intersection of two parts of a roof

• Rake-sloping edge of a steep roof

Steep Roof Terms

• Soffit-undersurface of a horizontal element of a building, especially a roof overhang.

Steep Roof Terms

• Building without a fascia has no board or face to the eave.

Stone

• Random Rubble

• Coursed Rubble

Stone

• Coursed Ashlar

• Random Ashlar

Vapor Retarder

• Vapor retarder protects from moisture. It is usually put on the warm winter side of the insulation.

Waterproofing

• Definition-An impervious membrane applied to the outside of a foundation.

• Liquid applied waterproofing

Weep Hole

• Weep hole allows water to drain from where it has seeped through the mortar.

Welded Wire Fabric

Windows

Awning-This is an awning window because it is hinged at the top of the window.

Casement-This is an casement window because it is hinged at the side and it swings outward.

Windows

Windows

• This is double hung because it has two overlapping sashes that slide vertically in tracks.