Services for Walls
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Walls
Services
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Jargon Buster
Areas covered under this Category are as follows:
- Brick Laying
- Pointing
- Remove Wall
- Scaffoldings
- Stone Masons/Dry Wallers
- Wall Coatings
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NHIC membership comprises many of the most important companies and organisations operating in the home improvement sector - www.nhic.org.uk
The Painting and Decorating Association (PDA) - www.paintingdecoratingassociation.co.uk - the UK's largest trade and employers' association for contractors in the painting and decorating industry. The Association has one clear purpose - to ensure all members adhere to the highest standards.
- Screwfix
- B&Q
- Wickes
- Homebase
- Plumbase
- Plumb Centre
- Marley Plumbing & Drainage
- Buildbase
A to B
- Accelerator: to speed up a natural set a mixture is added to render plaster or mortar
- Bagged joint: a flat mortar joint finish lightly wiped over with sacking
- Bats: broken bricks used to fill in
- Blocks (breeze): generally used in masonry that is hidden such as within the inner skin of cavity work. Theses lightweight blocks have insulation properties and are usually made from aerated concrete
- Bonding: term given to the pattern of bricks laid or the method used to join new walls
- Brickwork lintels: these are galvanised steel lintels fixed to the external timber frame panel and support work over a window or door openings in timber frame
- Butter coat: is the soft final coat to which the aggregate is applied in dry dashing
C to D
- Coating: paint lacquer varnish or other finish which is applied to the surface of a product to create a protective and/or decorative layer
- Dry lining (drywalling): is the application of fixing plasterboard on timber or metal frames to create internal walls or adhering plasterboard to blockwork walls with plaster adhesive dabs
E to F
- Fair faced: is the out facing side of brickwork that will be on show
- Float coat: sand and cement mortar mix used as an internal backing coat or external render
G to H
- Gauged mortar: mortar produced from sand and cement mixed with lime to produce a lower strength more workable mix
- Head binder: is a horizontal timber member that ties together individual wall panels
- Header: is the end of a brick
I to J
K to L
- Lath: strips of wood that were often found in traditional buildings. They are pinned in place to form a slatted base onto which a lime plaster can be applied
- Limewash: limewash is made by diluting lime putty with water and is used as an external paint or protective coating
- Lintel: concrete or steel beam put over doors and openings to support the bricks or blocks above
M to N
- Mortar gun: can be a hand or air powered gun to applying repair and pointing mortar
- Mortar (muck or pug): is a mixture of sand a binder such as cement or lime and water and is applied as a paste which then sets hard
O to P
- Party floor: a separating floor between flats similar to a party wall between houses
- Pebble dash: a dry dash finish in which pebbles or rounded aggregates are pushed into wet render and left exposed
- Perps: perpendicular ends to bricks
- Pointing: using mortar to fill the gaps between stone block or brick in walls
Q to R
- Quoins: right angle corners of brickwork that are built up at the start of the job to form the brick lines and courses. Less experienced bricklayers will sometimes fill-in between the quoins
- Render: a wall coating of lime cement or polymer mortar
- Retarder: is added to cement plaster or mortar to slow down the initial rate of setting by inhibiting hydration
- Rubbers: these are soft red bricks that are easily cut into shape such as within an arch
S to T
- Sand-limes: calcium silicate bricks which are nearly white in colour
- Scaffolding: temporary working platforms erected around or outside a building to provide a safe working place at a convenient height.
- Sleeper wall: wall built to support ground-floor joists. Usually has brick spaces called 'honeycombs' left in it to aid ventilation.
- Spatter dash: a wet sand and cement mix flicked or sprayed onto the wall surface
- Struck joint: is a mortar joint on brickwork
- Studs: is a vertical timber that forms the wall panels and is the height of the wall
- Through colour render: is an external render that is pre-coloured with no need to paint
- Top plate: is the horizontal timber rail that ties together studs in a wall panel
U to V
W to X
- Wall sander: large disc sander for smoothing and prepping plaster walls and ceilings drywall joints paints and coatings
- Wall ties: stainless steel brackets and nails installed to tie back and brace the external brick or block cladding to the timber frame
Y to Z