Services for Carpentry/Joiners
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Jargon Buster
Areas covered under this Category are as follows:
- Acoustic Doors
- Architectural
- Architraves
- Balcony
- Balustrades
- Banisters
- Bespoke
- Cabinet Making
- Doors
- Folding Doors
- Frames
- French
- Polishers
- Restoration
- Skirting
- Staircases
- Timbers
- Wood Panelling
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The institute of carpenters - www.instituteofcarpenters.com
British Woodworking Federation - www.bwf.org.uk
Contract Flooring Association - www.cfa.org.uk
Door & Hardware Federation - www.dhfonline.org.uk
- Screwfix
- B&Q
- Wickes
- Homebase
- Buildbase
A to B
- Architrave: these are mouldings around openings such as doors or windows.
- Baluster: the posts, known as banisters, located under the handrail in a staircase.
- Balustrade: a row of balusters joined to a handrail, for example, at the side of a landing.
- Batten: timbers that vary in size to which slates or tiles are fixed.
- Bearers: battens are designed to provide support for other timbers.
- Bolt: rod like structure that slides into a socket.
- Bowing: a warping that causes boards to curl up at their ends.
- Box joint: joint that is made of equally sized, spaced notches and pins cut into the edges or ends of a board.
- Braces: diagonal strips of timber used on tongued and grooved doors and gates to strengthen and prevent sagging.
- Bradawl: a tool with a sharp tip to start holes for small screws.
- Butt joint: joint where two boards are glued, edge to edge or face to edge without overlapping.
C to D
- Casement: a window that has hinged opening sashes.
- Centre deadlock: door and window locking device.
- Chamfer: a bevel produced on timbers, for decorative purposes - such as door panels.
- Chuck: the part of a drill that holds the bit in place.
- Cope joint: a joint used on trim with rounded profiles.
- Deadlock: door and window locking mechanism.
- Double-hung sash: sash window with moving top and bottom sections.
- Dovetail joint: joint where two boards have interlocking tails and pins cut to join together.
- Dovetail nailing: a way of angling nails to provide an improved grip.
- Dowel: a cylindrical, grooved piece of wood used to join two pieces of wood together.
E to F
- French door: double, hinged, opening doors.
G to H
- Gimlet: a small tool for boring small holes.
- Hardwood: wood from trees such as oak, beech, mahogany and maple.
- Head plate: a horizontal timber fixed to a ceiling to which vertical timbers of a stud partition are nailed.
I to J
- In-line patio: door (patio door) which slides literally 'in-line' with a glass screen.
- Internal beading: bead securing glass in frame from the inside.
- Joist: structural element that runs horizontally and supports a ceiling or floor.
K to L
- Live knots: any knots in timber which are still exuding resin.
M to N
- Mastics: a modern alternative to putty, used to bed glass in its frame.
- Miter: an angled cut made across the face of a board from edge to edge.
- Mortise: a recess such as a hole, slot, groove into which another element fits.
- Muntin: vertical strut of a window frame or a glazed doorframe which sits between panes.
- Newel: vertical post at the top and bottom of a staircase where the handrail is jointed.
- Nogging: short wooden stiffeners inserted between joists.
O to P
- Patio door: sliding doors and fixed screen with a full height glazing.
- Pilot hole: hole drilled in timber to give a start for the thread part of a screw.
- Pocket hole: a hole drilled at an angle to hide a screw and fasten two perpendicular pieces.
- Pre-drill: drilling pilot holes for screws, to avoid splitting the work.
- Purlin: a horizontal roof member located part way up a rafter. The purlin will prevent the rafter from sagging under load.
- Push-fit joints: joints which lock naturally when pressed together.
Q to R
- Quadrant moulding: a thin piece of timber of quarter-circle section.
- Rafter: the structural member of a roof which supports the weathering materials underneath. It would still be called a rafter in a flat roof.
- Riser: the vertical part of a stair step.
S to T
- Sapwood: wood cut from the portion of a tree between the heartwood and bark.
- Screeding timbers: spaced battens temporarily fixed to a wall and used for depth control when plastering.
- Scribe: transferring the contour of one surface to another.
- Scuff sand : lightly sanding to allow a follow-on coat of finish to adhere.
- Shakes: splits in wood, usually running with the grain, caused by shrinkage through drying.
- Shiplap claddding: shaped timber boards, designed to overlap to provide a weather tight joint.
- Sidescreen: fixed full window to the side of a residential, French or patio door.
- Sill: bottom horizontal element of a door or window frame.
- Skew nailing: nails driven in at an acute angle to improve holding power.
- Softwood: the wood of trees such as pine, fir, cedar, larch, spruce.
- Stay: locking device on wooden window frames, used to hold a hinge window in an open position for ventilation.
- Stiles: the vertical timbers of a panelled door.
- Stress crack: damage often caused by over tightening a fitting, or applying too much pressure.
- String: the side of a stair where treads, risers and balusters are fitted.
- Stud partition: a wall constructed of timbers to which plasterboard is nailed.
- Tanalised: a highly toxic propriety blend of copper and arsenic which is pressure-impregnated into softwood as a preservative.
- Tenon: a projection that extends from the end (edge) of a board specially cut to fit a mortise.
- Threaded insert: the threaded part of a joint designed to be inserted into timber.
- Tongue and groove: joint where a protruding tongue on the edge of one board fits into the groove in the edge of another board.
- Top light: narrow height opening or fixed window above a door or main window.
- Top-hung: top-hung window sashes are hung from hinges fixed along the top horizontal edge of the window opening.
- Transom: the horizontal element of a window frame.
- Tread: the horizontal part of a stair step.
- Twist: warping that causes boards to curl in more than one direction from end to end.
U to V
W to X
- Winder: a turning tread in the stair.
Y to Z