![]() ![]() ![]() Shingle/shake: Wood shingles are sawn by machine and are relatively thin. Since these two varieties aren't always easy to tell apart, it's prudent to call in an architect or engineer before you go tearing out either one. ![]() In most houses, the exterior walls and at least one wall running down the middle of the house are bearing, while all the other walls - er, partitions - are nonbearing. Wall/partition: Structurally speaking, a wall is always bearing, while a partition is always nonbearing. Girder/header/beam: In wood-frame construction, a heavy horizontal member is called a girder if it's below floor level, a header if it's over a door or window, and a beam if it's pretty much anywhere else. To make things more confusing, paired closet doors that slide past each other aren't called sliding doors either - they're called bypassing doors. Those interior doors that disappear into a slot in the wall, on the other hand, are properly called pocket doors. Sliding door/pocket door/bypassing door: The term sliding door refers only to the sliding glass variety that usually leads outside. Trim/casing: On the outside of a house, the decorative frame around a door or window is called trim, while on the inside, the same thing is called casing. In the case of so-called "simulated divided lites," grilles resembling muntins are either sandwiched between double glass panes or else installed over the outer surface of the glass to give a divided look. Muntins are the narrow strips of wood that divide the individual panes of glass in a traditional sash. Mullion/muntin: A mullion is a heavy vertical or horizontal member between adjoining window units. The whole shebang - sash, jambs, sill and everything else - is called a window. Sash/window: The part of a window that moves is called the sash. So strictly speaking, a cement mixer should be called a concrete mixer. If you add sand and aggregate to the mixture, though, you get concrete. Cement/concrete: Cement refers only to the powder that hardens when you add water. ![]()
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