Sandblasting cleans, shapes, and roughens surfaces with abrasive materials.
It can change masonry's appearance, but it's not the same technique.
Stucco typically refers to a textured plaster or cement-based material that is often used on walls and exteriors of buildings.
Site preparation includes grading the land to a specific slope or level. Grading includes cut-and-fill.
This glass has two or more panes separated by an air or gas-filled space to improve insulation and energy efficiency.
It's called "double glazing" or "dual-pane glass."
A door with left-side hinges and a door leaf that swings into the room is called this.
"Hands of door" uses the more specific term.
is CHB laying slang for aligning, leveling, and positioning concrete hollow blocks.
It creates a sturdy, attractive wall.
Scarfs are diagonally cut wood end joints. A scarf joint joins two wood pieces by overlapping their ends and cutting matching angles.
.This secures the joint and evenly distributes load and stress.
"Figured Wired Glass" is shutter-proof opaque glass used to make glass doors that let in natural light only. This "figured" glass has a wire mesh for strength and safety.
It lets light in while concealing visibility.
Polyurethane Floor Coatings finish and topcoat wood flooring without maintenance. Polyurethane floor coatings protect and last.
It gives wood a glossy or satin finish and resists wear, chemicals, and moisture.
"Accelerator" admixtures speed up concrete setting.
Accelerators speed up concrete setting and strength development. In cold weather construction or fast turnaround, they are useful.
The paint film peels off in large pieces when it detaches from the surface. Poor paint-substrate adhesion causes this defect.
When paint doesn't stick, it can peel off, leaving large paint flakes or strips.
is the phrase used in CHB laying lingo to describe the preliminary process of aligning, leveling, and assuring the vertical and horizontal alignment of concrete hollow blocks.
It establishes the framework for an attractive and well-built wall construction.
Tendons are bundles of wire, cable, bar, rod, or strand used to prestress concrete.
Prestressing concrete involves applying forces to counteract tensile stresses under load. Tendons are essential.
Roll-up doors have small horizontal interlocking metal slats guided in a track that coils around a manual or motor-driven overhead drum at the opening.
Roll-up doors are used in commercial, industrial, and residential settings.
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock made mostly of sand-sized mineral, rock, or organic particles.
It's known for its durability, color variety, and sand-like texture.
A tampico brush or masonry spoon creates a "tooth" for plaster adhesion by splattering a thin layer of lean cement grout mixed with flexible base additives on poured concrete walls, beams, and columns.
"Scratch Coat" is this process.
