Definitions

Question 0

Decorative wood with a routed bead, usually located in 30’s style buildings

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Bead board

Question 1

A force that passes through the center of an object

Answer 1

Axial load

Question 2

Opening in masonry or frame walls to support roof or floor beams. Maybe restrained or unrestrained beams

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Beam pocket

Question 3

Horizontal member used to support vertically applied loads across an opening

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Beam

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Usually a wood member closing the gap between trusses on the outside bearing wall

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Bird stop/ frieze board

Question 5

Course or courses reinforced with rebar and filled with grout, usually ties top of walls and holds ledger bolt and saddles for beams that support roof structures holding top plate in which trusses are nailed

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Bond beam

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Beam or column constructed of lumber, forming a hollow “box” spanning opening or columns

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Box Beam

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Clay masonry unit

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Brick

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Concealed spaces in roof structures usually associated where two roof lines come together

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Build-Overs

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Outside strengthening column in a masonry or concrete building

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Butress

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Hollow area in block

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Cell

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Ceramic component used to secure electrical wiring in 30’s style buildings

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Ceramic insulators

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Concealed space used to run electric, ductwork, and pluming in a structure

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Chase

Question 13

Concrete masonry unit / cinder block

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CMU

Question 14

Horizontal connecting member connecting roof rafters in conventional framing

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Collar Tie

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A vertical supporting member designed to carry a compressive load

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Column

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A force that pushes together

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Compression

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Refers to a row of brick or block

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Course

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Small in-roof structures used to deflect water, usually hiding a consealed space

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Crickets

Question 19

Weight of the building itself and any equipment permanently attached

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Dead Load

Question 20

Attic vent located on the roof where louvers are vertical to the roof pitch

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Dormer Vent

Question 21

Generally 1x material located on top edge of fascia, designed to drop water away from the fascia

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Drip edge or shingle mold

Question 22

Load that is applied off center

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Eccentric loads

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Enclosed area of overhang creating concealed space

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Exterior soffits

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Usually decorative wood placed horizontally on the ends of trusses on the bottom of the roof line

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Fascia

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Beams with an angle cut away from the supporting walls of column designed to fail early in fire situation to prevent wall collapse usually in unreinforced masonry buildings, but still used today

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Fire cut beam

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Formed metal used to deal roof coverings

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Flashing

Question 27

Louvered side vent to the attic space on a gable roof house

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Gable end vent

Question 28

A truss designed to support itself and trusses from an additional section of the building

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Girder truss

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Glass modular unit, usually 4" thick, mortared together for window panels, walls and architectural features

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Glass block

Question 30

Concrete that fills cells of blocks

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Grout

Question 31

Metal plate with stamped gang nail used to connect wood in lightweight trusses

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Gusset plate

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Ends of blocks

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Blocks

Question 33

Beam spanning an opening in a frame building

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Header

Question 34

Sudden load delivered to a structure. I.E. Jumping onto a roof

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Impact load

Question 35

Enclosed area creating a concealed space usually over cabinets, hallways and bathrooms

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Interior Soffits

Question 36

Vertical supporting member running from ridge beam to interior bearing wall in conventional framing

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King post

Question 37

Brick layed perpendicular to the wall structure in unreinforced masonry used for wall strengthening

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Kings row

Question 38

Wood member attached to exterior walls for hanging roofs and floors

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Ledger

Question 39

Reinforcing steel spanning a opening in a masonry

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Lintel

Question 40

Any load other than dead load, water, snow machinery firefighters

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Live load

Question 41

Wall carrying a load from another part of the structure in addition to its own weight

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Load bearing walls

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Supporting members for rake overhang on a gable roof

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Lookouts / Barge rafters

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Cement sand mixture that bonds brick and block

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Mortar

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Dividing panels in a window

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Mullions

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A wall supporting only it's own weight

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Non-Load bearing wall

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Oriented strand board wood chips glued and pressed together to form 4x8 sheating

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OSB

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Vertical and horizontal space in a wall, usually associated with apartments. Used for sound deadening and utility placement

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Party wall / sound wall

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Any member running at a ninety degree angle to the main supporting roof members

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Purlin

Question 49

Inside strengthening column in a masonry or concrete building usually supporting a roof member

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Pilaster

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1/4 " drywall with holes attached to interior walls and ceiling covered with plaster. Used in 50 style building

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Plaster board

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4x8 wood sheet composed of wood play's glued and pressed together in alternating grain direction

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Plywood

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Steel cables in poured concrete capable of being tensioned after the concrete has cured

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Post tension concrete

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Tension applied to reinforcing steel before concrete is poured bridge I beam

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Pre tension concrete

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Poured, pre-formed metal panels used as a sub base for lightweight floors and roof systems

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Q decking

Question 55

Vertical support member between ridge and outline bearing wall in conventional framing

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Queen post

Question 56

Roof overhang running from the facia to the ridge

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Rake/Barge

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Steel reinforcing bar for concrete and masonry, whose system for measuring diameter is based in eighths

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Rebar

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Concrete with reinforced steel

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Reinforced concrete

Question 59

Wood member running along ridge that roof rafters tie to In Conventional framing

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Ridge beam

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Horizontal member usually nailed to wall members. Usually in balloon type framing for attaching roof or floor structures

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Rim joist

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Insulated electrical wire with outer plastic sheath used since early 50s

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Romex

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Method of measuring roof angle by relation of rise to run

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Roof pitch

Question 63

Lightweight truss where the bottom cord pitches up, forming a vaulted interior ceiling

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Scissor truss

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Opening in exterior walls or parapets for removing water off roofs

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Scuppers

Question 65

Split wood shingle in varying dimension and thickness used for roof covering

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Shake shingles

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Structural component of a roof with horizontal louvers for attic ventilation usually in 30's style buildings

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Shed dormer

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Plywood or osb placed on frame buildings for lateral support under siding or stucco

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Sheer panel

Question 68

A force that tends to break materials by sliding past each other

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Shear

Question 69

Flashing on asphalt shingle roofs to limit water damage to wood fascia

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Shingle mold