| Wheelbarrow,
barrow |
A
barrow, usually having a single rubber tyre, two handles and a steel or
heavy plastic container. It is used to move loose materials like bricks,
mortar etc |
| Wheelhead |
A
handwheel |
| Wheeling
step |
A
stair winder |
| White
ant |
A
termite |
| White
blob |
Manifestation
of new glazing |
| White
cement |
Portland
cement which has been selected and
ground without contamination by iron (the grey green colour of ordinary
cement) or to which white pigment has been added |
| White
coat |
A
plaster finishing coat |
| White
lead |
A
poisonous, opaque but not very brilliant white
pigment, formerly widely used in lead
paints |
| White
lime |
High
calcium lime |
| White
spirit, turpentine |
A
clear, colourless liquid organic solvent,
distilled from petroleum mainly used as thinner
for paints. It is also useful for cleaning paint brushes and removing grease,
tar adhesives and black shoe marks |
| Whitening
in the grain |
A
streaky white unpleasant appearance which is sometimes seen in varnished
or polished woods with coarse texture,
whether filled or not |
| Whitewood |
European
softwoods from a wide group of trees, including silver fir, yellow
pine and spruces, with white to yellow
heartwood and sapwood |
| Whiting,
Paris white |
Crushed
chalk, used as an extender in paints
for making putty and as a filler in sealants |
| Wicket |
A
small gate, a small door or gate forming part of a large one. |
| Wicket
door |
A
small door for one person in the leaf
of a large entrance door to a factory or a warehouse |
| Wide-ringed
timber |
Timber
with annual rings which are far apart
owing to a high rate growth |
| Width
of the road |
The
whole extent of spaces within the boundaries of road when applied to a new
road, as laid down in the surveys of the city or development plans and measured
at right angles to the course or intended course or direction of such road. |
| Wind
beam |
A
collar beam |
| Wind,
winding |
The
twist of converted timber. It is a type of warp |
| Winder |
A
tapered tread in a turning part of a staircase (or circular
stair) radiating from a common springing point at the newel
post |
| Window |
An
opening to the outside other than a door which provides all part of the
required natural light or ventilation or both to an interior space and not
used as means of egress / ingress. |
| Window
back |
The
vertical paneling or lining material
between the floor and the window sill |
| Window
Bar |
A
glazing Bar |
| Window
board |
A
horizontal board (or other material) fixed under a window
sill inside a window |
| Window
casing |
The
traditional timber cased frame of a sash window |
| Window
ledge |
A
window sill |
| Window
sill |
A horizontal ledge below a window. The outside is weathered
outwards and has a throat or drip
underneath to protect the top of the breast
wall against rainwater and to prevent waterstreaks on the wall |
| Window
unit |
A
unit air conditioner fixed in a window |
| Wing
nut |
A
nut that can be tightened or removed without tools by turning it with figures |
| Wiped
joint |
A
bulging joint round the outside of a lead pipe, made by wiping on heated
solder with a cotton |
| Wiping
seal |
A
strip rubber blade seal or a fibre
brush seal |
| Wire
brush |
A
tool used for cleaning metals before painting |
| Wire
gauge |
A
method of defining wire diameter by a number, which stated originally the
number of passes made through different, increasingly smaller dies. The
number of for large wire is therefore smaller than for thin wire |
| Wire
management |
The
prewiring of movable equipment or ensuring that
trunking for wiring is big enough over its full length for all
present and future needs |
| Wire
nail |
A
nail made by cutting and shaping a
piece of round or elliptical steel wire |
| Wirecut
brick |
Clay
bricks made
by extruding a strip of clay through a die and cutting it with wires held
in frame, followed by drying and firing |
| Wired
glass |
Flat
glass reinforced
by embedded wire mesh which holds the pieces together if it breaks. It is
mainly used as fire-resisting glass |
| Wiring |
The
cables, which carry electricity in a building, installed by an electrician.
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| Wiring
diagram |
Usually
a single-line diagram |
| Wiring
in |
The
connecting of cable tails to fittings,
usually done after the main wiring and requiring coordination with other
trades |
| Wiring
loom |
A
bundle of cables, prefabricated to save time on site |
| Withdrawable
switchgear |
Plug-in
switchgear |
| Withdrawn |
The
positions of a door lock, bolt or
latch, when it is retracted into the case, by turning a handle
or key. The opposite is "shot" or "thrown" |
| Withdrawn
load |
Wire
nails driven
across the grain are considered to have a safe pulling resistance of about
4.3 kg per cm length per 2.5 mm dia |
| Wobble
saw |
A
circular saw on a pair of tapered washers,
making it slightly off perpendicular to the drive shaft to cut a wide
herf. It is used in joinery for cutting open
mortises |
| Wood |
Tough
fibrous substance obtain from a tree |
| Wood
borer |
A
slow electric drill used to make holes with an auger
bit |
| Wood
brick |
A
fixing brick |
| Wood
chipboard |
Chipboard |
| Wood
element |
A
wood cell, botanically called xylem |
| Wood
flour |
Fine
sawdust, sometimes used as an extender
for adhesives. It is also used in explosives
as filler for plastic wood etc |
| Wood
mosaic |
A
warm, resilient, decorative wood block flooring
of strips of hardwood 7.5 mm thick and 115 x 25 mm, made up into squares,
then put together in a basket weave pattern as panels 475 m square. A sheet
of paper on its top surface holds each panel together. It is laid in bituminous
adhesive and the paper is removed after laying |
| Wood
primer |
The
first coat of paint on new wood, it should have the right
moisture content, with a clean, dry surface. The primer used
must be compatible with any preservatives
in the wood. Primer should be brushed on and all end grain double primed |
| Wood
roll |
A
joint between bays of supported sheetmetal roofing
hand made by folding the edges upwards on a sloping-sided or
round-topped wood core. The joint is weatherproofed either by lapping the
sheets to form an undercloak and overcloak
(with a splash lap) or by turning up
the edges and nailing down a capping |
| Wood
screw |
A
steel screw with a tapered gimlet point,
a straight shank, and a countersunk, raised or dome head, traditionally
with a straight slot |
| Wood
slip |
A
fixing fillet |
| Wood
turning |
The
skilled work of cutting wood to shape as it is spun round in a lathe, using
chisels or
gouges e.g. to make balusters |
| Wood-based
panel products |
Panel
products made
of wood particles, veneers or blocks, bonded together with adhesive,
natural resins or cement They include building
boards, such as flakeboard, waferboard
etc |
| Wood-block
flooring |
A
floor finish made of wooden flooring
blocks, which usually have tongued and grooved edges. Blocks are 19 to 38
mm thick, up to 90 mm wide, and from 150 to 380 mm long. |
| Wood-boring
weevil |
(Pentarthrum
huttoni, etc) A borer which forms shallow
channels in damp timbers, particularly if decay is already present |
| Wood-cement
particle board |
A
building board made of wood chips bonded
with portland cement instead of resin based adhesives in normal wood chipboard.
This helps it achieve a higher fire resistance rating. Both faces
are smooth and suitable for most finishings, although it is mainly used
for floating floors. It resists decay
outdoors, if painted or sealed against rain, unlike chipboard bonded with
urea-formaldehyde adhesives |
| Wood-heater |
A
room heater made to burn wood. The wood should be as dry as possible, when
it gives off most heat and does not blacken the glass in the fire door |
| Woodwool
slab |
A
panel product made of long thin strands
of wood that are mixed with cement and compressed in a mould to bind them
together. Woodwool slabs are mainly used for roof decks
or wall cladding, giving fire resistance as well as heat and sound insulation.
Another use is permanent formwork |
| Woodworking
machines |
Bench
mounted or stand alone power tools for shaping wood, such as doweller,
mitre saw, mortising machine etc |
| Woodworm |
A
borer usually the common furniture
beetle |
| Work
edge |
The
face edge of timber |
| Work
section |
A
chapter of a specification that may
describe a complete trade or a job done
by a specialist sub-contractor |
| Workability |
How
hard or easy a material is to cut, shape, drill etc |
| Working |
1) The swelling
or shrinkage of timber causing movement as its moisture
content becomes higher in winter and lower in summer, from
changes in the relative humidity of air
2) Shaping materials
by cutting, grinding, bending or folding if they are hard or by moulding,
screeding, floating or toweling if they are wet or plastic
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| Working
life |
The
time, during which a product can be used after it has been mixed, before
it sets or its curing system has been
activated. Examples of product with working lives are adhesives,
two part paints, sealants etc |
| Working
space |
Clear
space around a equipment or a machine to allow access and movement |
| Working-up |
The
processing of data from taking-off.
These are the two main stages in preparing bill
of quantities. Working-up includes abstracting
and billing |
| Worm
hole |
The
hole left in wood by a borer, either
a small pinhole or a larger shothole |
| Wrapping
fabric |
Lightweight
steel fabric bent round steelwork before the concrete encasement
is put on, to hold it in a fire |
| Wrapping
tape |
Tape
of plastic or fibre with sticky waxes, wound round buried or severely exposed
steel pipes to protect them against corrosion |
| Wreath |
That
part of a stair handrail which is curved both on plan and in elevation |
| Wrecking |
Demolition |
| Wrench |
A
spanner, usually adjustable |
| Wye |
Wye
A drain pipe fitting with a straight run and two inlet branches in the shape
of the letter Y |
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