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A panel with plastic, paper, or other material enclosed between two layers of a different material.
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The movable part of a window-the frame in which panes of glass are set in a window or door.
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A small opening either to the attic, to the crawl space or to the plumbing pipes.
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A sewage disposal system composed of a septic tank and a connected cesspool.
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A sewage settling tank in which part of the sewage is converted into gas and sludge before the remaining waste is discharged by gravity into a leaching bed underground.
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The first covering of boards or material on the outside wall or roof prior to installing the finished siding or roof covering.
(See Wall Sheathing)
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Thin tapered piece of wood used for leveling or tightening a stair or other building element.
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Pieces of wood, asbestos or other material used as an overlapping outer covering on walls or roofs.
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1. Boards with rabbeted edges overlapping.
2. Siding Boards of special design nailed horizontally to vertical studs with or without intervening sheathing to form the exposed surface of outside walls of frame buildings.
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The lowest member of the house framing resting on top of the foundation wall. Also called the mud sill.
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Narrow boards around the margin of a floor; baseboards.
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Concrete floor placed directly on earth or a gravel base and usually about four inches thick.
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Strip of wood laid over concrete floor to which the finished wood floor is nailed or glued.
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The visible underwide of structural members such as staircases, cornices, beams, a roof overhang or eave.
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Easily worked wood or wood from a conebearing tree.
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Vertical plumbing pipe for waste water.
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A long, horizontal member which connects uprights in a frame or supports a floor or the like. One of the enclosed sides of a stair supporting the treads and risers.
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In wall framing, the vertical members to which horizontal pieces are nailed. Studs are spaced either 16 inches or 24 inches apart.
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Usually, plywood sheets that are nailed directly to the floor joists and that receive the finish flooring.
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A pit in the basement in which water collects to be pumped out with a sump pump.
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A wide shallow depression in the ground to form a channel for storm water drainage.
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