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Flooring
Of or pertaining to the laying or building of floors.
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planer bite
Construction; Flooring
A groove cut in the surface of the edge of a parquet slat or on the face of a 3/4" solid strip, deeper than intended by the planer knives.
plan
Construction; Flooring
A drawing representing a projection of any one of the floors or horizontal cross sections of a building or of the horizontal plane of any object or area.
plainsawn wood
Construction; Flooring
Wood that has been sawed from the hardwood log in such a manner so the growth rings form an angle from 00 to 450 with the surface.
plain sawn
Construction; Flooring
The annual growth rings make an angle of less than 45 degrees with the surface of the piece. This exposes the pores of the springwood and dense summerwood of the annual growth ring in ring porous ...
pin holes
Construction; Flooring
Small round holes (1/100 to 1/4 inch in diameter) in wood that results from the mining of ambrosia and similar beetles.
pith
Construction; Flooring
The small, soft core occurring near the center of a tree trunk, branch, twig or log.
pin worm hole
Construction; Flooring
In hardwood flooring, a small round hole not more than 1/16inch (1.5626MM) in diameter, made by a small wood boring insect.
