- Industry: Construction
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A chamber having controlled air flow, temperature and relative humidity for drying lumber, veneer and other wood products.
Industry:Construction
A measure of the solvent power of petroleum thinners, expressed as the number of milliliters of the product under test required to cause cloudiness or turbidity in 20 grams of a solution of Kauri in butyl alcohol that has been prepared under standardized conditions.
Industry:Construction
The junction of precut surfaces butted together, such as tile or underlayment boards.
Industry:Construction
a.) A small timber to which the boards of a floor or the laths of a ceiling are nailed. Joists rest on the walls or on girders.
b.) One of a series of parallel beams used to support floor or ceiling loads and supported in turn by larger beams, girders or bearing walls.
Industry:Construction
Strip flooring, generally birch, beech, hard maple, oak or pecan, manufactured with square edges, not side matched, but usually end matched.
Industry:Construction
One piece of Armstrong resilient flooring material that is down-graded from regulars to irregulars because of one or more defects of material workmanship. The defects are primarily visual and may not be of such a degree as to make the goods unusable material. This material is not covered under the Armstrong material warranty and is sold "as is".
Industry:Construction
To expand with heat to provide a low density film. The term is used in reference to certain fire retardant coatings.
Industry:Construction
The intensity of a color is its purity or degree of hue as seen by the eye.
Industry:Construction
