Chapter One Information
Another name for working drawings, plans, prints, construction drawings.
What are blueprints?
This important value is calculated by adding up the sides of a building or room.
What is perimeter?
This is the number of inches in a foot.
What is twelve?
A line that is represented by a longer line, then a shorter dash, and then another longer line.
What is a center line?
Insulation used in the past that was found to cause health diseases and is not being eliminated from buildings and homes.
A wall that supports a structural load.
What is a bearing wall?
A pictorial drawing, many times used for a presentation
What is a rendering?
This value is found by multiplying the length times the width of a rectangular or square space.
This is the device used to measure drawings that allows big buildings and houses to be represented on drawings that can fit on a table.
A lines that is dashed and usually drawn in a lighter tone, and found in plans, elevations, sections and details, and represents something that you can't see and that is behind something else, but still important.
What is a hidden line?
Drawings made after the completion of a job?
What are as-built drawings?
An electrical device that interrupts an overload.
A horizontal section through a house or building that shows a vast amount of information such as room layouts, dimensions, finishes, walls, doors, cabinets, fireplaces, layouts of mechanical equipment and plumbing.
What is the floor plan?
This is the units for perimeter.
What is feet or lineal feet?
The words that have the acronym AHU.
What is air handling unit?
A lines that represents that something continues, but the entire drawing is not shown to save space or clutter.
What is a break line?
A person licensed to design buildings and home and prepare the drawings and specifications.
What is an architect?
Material used to cover the wall in a kitchen or bathroom behind the countertops.
A drawing that shows the vertical faces of exterior and interior walls and their features.
What are elevations?
This is the units for area.
What is square feet.
Fastner connection between top of the foundation and the sill plate.
What is anchor bolt?
An amount of money included in a bid for the customer to select items later.
What is an allowance?
A piece that lies next to the primary component, example the end of a driveway, front of a bathtub, decorative trim at window.
What is an apron?
The handrail and posts used at the side of a staircase
What is a bannister?
A drawing that shows a vertical cut through a wall that shows how the building materials fit together at the foundation, floor, ceiling, roof, etc.
What is a section?
The is the value that is found by multiplying width times length times thickness.
What is volume?
What does the acronym AFF stand for.
What is Above Finished Floor?
The trim molding used where the floor and wall meet, also called base boards.
What is base molding?
Small, loose sand, gravel or crushed stone.
What is aggregate?
A wood or steel member with open webs used for floor or ceiling support.
What is bar joists (also called open web steel joists)?
This type of drawing shows how complex building components fit together and is usually drawn at a scale that is larger that the other drawings.
What is a detail?
This is the units on volume. In figuring concrete for a driveway, let's say, you might convert to cubic yards, but you always start with this unit first.
A measurement for heat output for gas appliances or heaters.
A horizontal framing piece that a stud rests on, sometimes called a sill plate.
What is a base plate?
Tool used to clean out drains or tool used to drill in wood or soil.
What is an auger?
Material, usually wood, installed in a wall or add rigidity or support.
What is backing?