2. Air Barrier Paper- a sheet material used to wrap a house, and seal it up.
Air Barrier Paper helps control the passing through of air and water vapor
in and out of the house.
4. Attic Ventilation (Con’t)
Soffit Vent- vent located in the Ridge Vent- vent located along the
overhang of a roof. Soffit vents let ridge board of a roof. This vent is
air into the attic. used to let air out.
5. Attic Ventilation (Con’t)
Gable Vent- vent located at the rake Roof Turbine- a vent located on the
ends of a gable or gambrel roof home.
plane of a roof that exhausts the
They exhaust the attic, some maybe
attic by spinning during a breeze.
electric.
6. Backhoe
A backhoe is a piece of
construction
equipment that is
used to move earth.
One of the most
common jobs
preformed by a
backhoe is digging
footings. A backhoe
can dig footings in half
the time that it would
normally take people.
This backhoe has a 24”
bucket.
7. Batter Boards- a temporary frame built outside the area of
excavation. Batter boards are used to temporarily show the
outside, horizontal dimensions of the future footings.
11. Brick Bonds
Running Bond- each course contains
Common Bond- A course of
stretchers that center the mortar
headers are laid every 6th course. joints of the previous course.
12. Brick bonds (Con’t)
Rowlocks- Bricks laid with Headers- bricks laid with
smallest face vertical. smallest face horizontal.
Headers
Rowlocks
13. Brick Bonds (Con’t)
Soldiers- Bricks laid
Rowlock stretcher
vertical, with the long narrow
face out. Sailors- Bricks laid
vertical, with wide and long
face out.
Rowlock stretcher- Bricks laid
horizontal, with long wide face
out.
Soldier
sailors
16. Cladding- A material used as the exterior wall enclosure
of a building.
EFIS (Exterior Insulation and
Brick Cladding finish system)
17. Cladding (Con’t)
Board and Batten
Stone Cladding- Coursed ashlars
18. Cladding (Con’t)
Wood Shingles- sawn
pieces of redwood or
cedar heartwood that
are used to clad a
house.
Wood Shakes- split
pieces of redwood or
cedar heartwood that
are used to clad a
house.
19. Code Requirements
Stair requirements for residences
Bedroom egress window- 25”
are a 7¾” max. riser and a 10”
high, 28”wide, area of 5.9 sq. ft.
min. tread. This set of stairs
and 22” AFF. IBC states that a
meets building code they have a
min. Of 24” high, 20” wide, and
7½” riser and a 11 ¼ “ tread .
area of 5.7 sq. ft.; also, no more
than 44” AFF.
20. Concrete Joints
Control Joint- intentional joint Isolation Joint- Joint put in a slab
put in a continuous structure to to separate one structure from
allow a weak point for cracking. another.
Control joint
crack
crack
21. Concrete Masonry Unit- block of hardened
concrete, with or without hollow cores designed to be laid like
brick. CMU’s are most commonly 8”x8”x16” which makes them
equal in height to 3 courses of brick.
• CMU’s are available in 3
different widths, each size is
8” tall by 16” high, but the
width varies from 4”, 8”, or
12”.
25. Electrical Components
Service Head- conduit run to the top
Power Pole- the source of power
of the house that has a weather
to a house. It has a step-down head. The head connects three
transformer that drops voltage wires from the pole to the house.
The three wires (2 hot, 1 neutral)
to a useable level.
run through the conduit to a service
meter.
26. Electrical Components
Service Panel- the control center of
Meter- the device that is used
the houses electrical system. It
to measure the amount of contains the main disconnect and all
power used by the house. the breakers that act as fuses.
27. Electrical Components
• Duplex receptacle- after the wires leave the breaker they
go to many different things including the duplex
receptacle. This is the device that serves as a outlet of
power to different appliances
34. Front End Loader- construction equipment used to
move loose soil. The front bucket is able to scoop up the soil and
move it to a place to be stored.
35. Gypsum Board- an interior facing panel with a
gypsum core between two paper faces.
36. Heat Pump- an advantage to heat pumps is their rapid
response to temperature change, But a disadvantage is the
difficulty to zone a area to maintain a separate temperature as
the rest of the house.
Air Handling Unit- interior
Compressor/Condenser-
component. Used to
exterior component used to
condition air and circulate it
pump refrigerant through
through a house.
system.
37. Insulation- used to form a container around spaces
with conditioned air to help maintain a set temperature.
Batt or Blanket- (batt insulation
Loose Fill
was installed around the attic
door instead of loose fill.)
39. Lintel
A lintel is used to carry the load of a wall across a
window or door opening. This lintel is made of
reinforced concrete.
40. Mortar
Extruding Joint- a nearly
Concave joint- A tooled joint
unfinished joint with 3/8”
with 3/8” mortar. This joint is on
mortar joints. The mortar used
a office building. The mortar
was probably type N
used was most likely type N.
41. Oriented Strand Board- a panel material that is not
veneered. OSB is manufactured by compressing wood particles and
gluing them into 3-5 sheets.
45. Plywood-wood panel made by gluing veneers together
with 2 parallel grain faces and crossbands that are perpendicular
to each other.
Veneers are thin
sheets of wood
46. Radiant Barrier- reflective foil placed adjacent to a air
space in roof or wall to prevent passing of infrared energy. This
example is of a radiant barrier facing put on batt insulation and
installed around a attic door.
47. Rebar- the rebar shown is #4, which means the diameter is ½”.
Rebar is used to add strength to concrete. The raised deformations on
the rebar helps bond the concrete to the rebar.
48. Steep Roof Drainage
Gutter- a channel that
collects rainwater and
snowmelt along the Gutter
eave of the roof
Downspout
Downspout- Vertical
piping used to carry
water from the gutter
to the ground.
49. Steep Roof Drainage
Splash block- small
precast bock of
concrete or plastic
used to direct
water a the bottom Splash block
of a downspout
50. Steep Roof Materials
Underlayment- a waterproof
material like building felt used
between roof sheathing and Clay Tile Roof
roofing. It is protecting the roof
decking from water.
51. Steep Roof Materials
Shingles- small waterproof Metal Panel Roof- preformed
units nailed overlapping one metal panels made of
another to make a roof water galvanized or aluminum
tight. sheets.
60. Vapor Retarder- a layer of material used to obstruct the
passage of water vapor through a buildings assembly. It is usually
placed on the warm-in-winter side of a assembly.
61. Waterproofing- membrane applied to the outside of a
foundation wall used to prevent the passing of water. This membrane
was liquid applied.
62. Weep Hole- a small opening made between two bricks
without mortar in the joint. Weep holes allow water to drain out of a
buildings assembly.
64. Windows
Double-Hung window- has two
Single-Hung window- has two
sashes that both move along
sashes but only one sash will
tracks to open and shut.
slide in its tracks to open or shut.
