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Building materials
Any material used for or during the construction of buildings.
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float strip
Building materials; Tiles
A strip of wood about 1/4 inch thick and 1 1/4 inch wide. It is used as a guide to align mortar surfaces.
field tile
Building materials; Tiles
An area of tile covering a wall or floor. The field is bordered by tile trim.
filled
Building materials; Tiles
An expression used to indicate the filling of natural voids in stone units with cements or synthetic resins and similar materials.
bisque fire
Building materials; Tiles
The process of maturing an unfired ceramic body and its glaze in one firing operation.
flat trowel
Building materials; Tiles
The flat trowel is used in conjunction with the hawk for the transferring of mortar from the mortarboard to the wall or to other vertical surfaces. It is frequently used for ...
extruded tile
Building materials; Tiles
A tile or trim unit that is formed when plastic clay mixtures are forced through a pug mill opening (die) of suitable configuration, resulting in a continuous ribbon of formed ...
epoxy mortar
Building materials; Tiles
A two-part mortar system consisting of epoxy resin and epoxy hardener used to bond tile to back-up material where chemical resistance of high bond strength is a consideration.
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- Brackets (31)
- Bricks (638)
- Cement (381)
- Concrete (2341)
- Finishing building materials (84)
- Lintel (25)
- Lumber (7432)
- Pipework and drainage (59)
- Sanitary ware (0)
- Stone (3339)
- Tiles (1692)
- Wire (328)
- Wood flooring (1493)