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Do you need to know your lime putty from your lime plaster? Want to improve your flatness tolerance? Stuck with an incomprehensible DIY manual? The Penguin Dictionary of Building is your answer. Ably steering you through the confusing maze of jargon and technical terms, this ever-popular text has sold over 150,000 copies and is invaluable for anyone interested in construction: students, professional architects, bricklayers, carpenters, glaziers, plasterers, plumbers or DIY enthusiasts. From abrasives to Z-purlin via the murder clause, this clear and comprehensive dictionary provides succinct and accurate explanations of the techniques, equipment and issues of the building world.
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DEAD LEG
A hot-water pipe leading to a tap and not part of a circuit. The hot water in a dead leg cools off between draw-offs, wasting water and heat, and increasing the danger of legionnaire's disease. Domestic hot-water cylinders are located near to the use points so as to limit dead legs to the lengths required by water companies. Large installations often have secondary circulation, but even they have short dead legs.
PERMIT TO WORK
Written permission to do hazardous work, to control access to a building site or part of it, or to services (e.g. telecom rooms). Permits should state who issued them and their position; the work involved and the person responsible for it; dates and times; associated risks; safety precautions and protective clothing needed. The permit should record the completion of the work, with the return of keys, badges, etc.
TERRACOTTA
Italian for burnt clay, a finer-grained ceramic than brick or tiles, used for making hollow clay blocks, ceramic veneer wall facings, statuettes, etc. It is moulded to shape and fired at 1200ºC. Terracotta can be unglazed but is more usually covered with a clear glaze or an opaque colour and should then be called faience. It has fairly low porosity and even if unglazed is very frost-resistant and durable.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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I'm an electrician who's doing a self build, but know's nothing about building terminolgy. Great to be able to deal with builders and designers and be able to understand what there on about! I thought distemper was a disease a dog had! Well worth the money.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This, in my opinion, is essential for any student of architecture or related disciplines. The list of terms (and accompanying explanations) is almost endless. I'd say this book is a bout as good as Google, better in many ways, all information you can trust. Never again will you be baffled when a client orders somethign you've never heard of or your boss asks for a drawing of something you don't know. Keep this on you at all times. Very good book indeed.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is just what it says on the cover: a Dictionary of Building. I was hoping that it would have lots of diagrams of a variety of constructions with names of the different parts marked, so if you couldn't remember or didn't know the name of something you could look it up. To be fair, there are one or two diagrams like that, but mostly it's simply a list of terms, some English, some American, in alphabetical order with occasional diagrams to clarify the description. Also, some common English terms don't appear at all, e.g. Constructional Hearth, Buttress. I was rather disappointed.
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Purchased for my BTEC Construction course. i am pretty new to the industry, so to save asking stupid questions i would consult this just to make sure i knew what people were... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Pringah
A useful book.
I have found it very useful both during study and at the workplace.
No student or professional should be without this wonderful source of reference.
No student or professional should be without this wonderful source of reference.
Published on 21 Feb 2009 by Mr. Eugene Ismail
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Probably the worst and least useful reference book I've got. I've been training as a home inspector (with very little relevant experience) and, about 90% of the time, this book... Read more
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useful guide
i bought this to help me with my uni work, and it has not let me down. because Any Technical Term that I do not understand in the lecture I can have a look in the book for the term... Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2007 by JOE THOMAS
Very Useful and Informative
A very comprehensive and well described dictionary of building terms. Extremely useful for both students and anyone involved in the construction industry.
Published on 5 Aug 2007 by Robert Cousins
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As a student this book came in really useful. The explanations of the different processes and the materials which can be used is very good. Read more
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