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Fixed: Non-venting or doesn't open.
Flashing: A metal or plastic strip attached to the outside of the head or side jambs to provide a weather barrier. It prevents leakage between the frame and the wall.
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Fixed - Refers to windows that are non-venting or inoperable. Also see Stationary Sash.

Fixed light (also fixed sash): Window or sash which is non-operative or non-venting.
Frame: An enclosure or combination of parts which surround a window sash or door panel.

Fixed window
Non-venting or non-operable window. Also known as picture window.
Flashing
A thin strip of metal or synthetic material that diverts water away from a window or skylight.

Fixed Window (Lite) A window or that part of a patio door that is permanently installed without movable sashes. Designated as the '0' panel in a slider diagram.

Fixed Price Contract - A fixed price contract may be a lump sum contract or a measurement contract based on fixed prices for units of specific work.

Fixed Non-venting or non-operable.
Flashing A thin strip of metal or synthetic material that diverts water away from a window or door.
Frame The combination of head, jambs and sill to form a precise opening in which a window sash or door panel fits.

fixed - securely placed or fastened or set; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor"
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leaded - treated or mixed with lead; "leaded gasoline"; "leaded zinc" ...

Fanlight - Fixed half-moon window sash above a door
Fascia - Flat vertical board used to hide ends of roof rafters
Fenestration - Design and placement of windows ...

Lump sum
- a fixed price for contract work, not intended to be adjusted in any way either by variation or remeasurement. A lump sum contract therefore is a contract for an agreed amount of work for a lump sum of money.

Sidelights - Fixed glass panels flanking a door or window opening. In Victorian and Edwardian buildings, often coloured or leadlight.

A light fixture fixed on a wall. Commonly sconces are tall and narrow and are often made to hold a candle.
Scoop Seat:
A wooden chair seat that has been hollowed out to fit the body.

A framed area of fixed glass, set vertically and flanking a door, usually made up of a number of small panes.
Sill
The horizontal ledge at the bottom of a window frame; slopes away from the building to prevent water from entering.

Chicago: A wide fixed pane with narrow movable sash windows flanking it. Example from Marshall Field and Company Store, Chicago, IL
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Fascia A board fixed to the rafter ends along the roof eaves.
Fibreboard Cheap, lightweight board material of little strength, used in ceilings or as insulation to attics. Considered to be a fire risk.

Barge boards - Fixed to the gable end of a roof to protect the roof timbers against wet and windy weather.
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Batten - Small section of timber to which sheet materials, slates and roof tiles are fixed.
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Zahafah: Probably a fixed wooden tower for archers. (Arabic)
Zaqaziq: A spiked hurdle used in field fortifications (Mamluk). (Arabic) ...

BARGEBOARDS: boards, often decorative, fixed to cover the eaves of a gable and thus to protect the ends of the rafters. BARREL VAULT: a continuous vault of semicircular cross-section.

Casement Window - a window composed of hinged, pivoted or fixed sashes.

Cantilever A projecting beam fixed at one end only
Canton A small square in the dexter chief corner of a shield. Smaller than a quarter
Capital The stone at the top of a column that supports the abacus and arch above it.

Bracket - A projecting support usually fixed to a wall or column, Stair handrails are often on metalwork brackets. Pipework can be supported by brackets with two piece cleats and/or; ...

Bagging The process of applying thin mortar to a masonry wall with a coarse material such as hessian Balcony A cantilevered or bracketed platform projecting from a wall with access from an upper storey Bargeboard A sloping board fixed to ...

In the middle of the east wall of the sanctuary is a pair of niches one of which is the mihrab whilst the other contains a fixed minbar.

The outlines continued to be traced upon the glass and fixed in the fire; but, after that, the process of painting consisted mainly in the removal of paint.

During the lifetime of the primary beneficiary, a percentage of assets or a fixed dollar amount are paid to the primary beneficiary.

- Church days fixed for rent payments; in the south of England these were Lady Day (March 25th, Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin), Midsummer's Day (June 24th, Feast of St John the Baptist), Michaelmas Day (September 29th, Feast of St.

By this time the stylistic quality of English Gothic had been pretty well fixed in such works as Beverley choir and transepts; Christ Church and St.

You have followed the right course of procedure, my dear Pliny, in your examination of the cases of persons charged being Christians, for it is impossible to lay down a general rule to a fixed formula.

StallFixed seat in the choir or chancel of a church for the clergy or choir. Usually with armrests, and often framed together.StanchionUpright structural member, of iron, steel or reinforced concrete.

"At the moment when his thought was thus fixed upon the priest, while the daybreak was whitening the flying buttresses, he perceived on the highest story of Notre-Dame, ...

Dormer: A dormer is a window housed in a gable or similar structure affixed to the sloping part of a roof, providing natural light and ventilation to the rooms beneath the roof.

Hoarding: covered wooden gallery affixed to the top of the outside of a tower or curtain to defend the castle
Inner Ward or Inner Bailey: open area in the center of a castle
Keep: the inner stronghold of the castle ...

BATTENS - Thin timber strips, to which tiles and slates are fixed.
BEETLE INFESTATION - (Wood boring insects; woodworm). Larvae of various species of beetle which tunnel into timber causing damage. Specialist treatment normally required.

sidelight A vertically framed area of fixed glass, often subdivided into panes, flanking a door.
sill The horizontal member at the bottom of a window or door.
soffit The exposed underside of any architectural element, especially a roof.

SINGLE HUNG: referring to a window with a fixed top sash and a lower sash that slides vertically. (IMAGE)
TRACERY: decorative intersecting glazing bars in the upper portion of a window; most common in Gothic Revival styles. (IMAGE) ...

When Drew got hold of these windows they were fixed up with "a sheet of plywood filled with concrete, Kleenex, plumbers putty, nails, caulking, 11 layers of paint with a carpenter ant nest living in it." Now they are stunning.
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Dado Rail: Wooden moulding fixed horizontally to a wall, about 1 metre above the floor, originally intended to protect the wall against damage by chair-backs now very much a decorative feature.

Picture Window - Fixed sash
Jalousie - Glass slats, Venetian blind principle
Horizontal sliding - two or more sash designed to slide over one another ...

a timber plank, often carved, fixed to the edge of a gabled roof at a short distance from the face of the wall, to protect projecting timbers.
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bargeboard Board or other decorative woodwork fixed to the edges or projecting rafters of a gabled roof. Sometimes called gingerbread.
barrel vault A masonry vault in the form of a semicircular arch.

a window shutter or door fitted with slanting fixed or movable slats to admit air, but exclude rain, snow, or to provide privacy.
lozenge
A diamond shape. See also other repetative decorative motifs ...

truss: beams or struts fixed together in a triangle to make a rigid component, generally of a roof.
tunnel vault: a continuous stone roof, either semicircular or pointed in section.

(a) a metal framework for a stainedglass window; (b) a fixed, inner framework supporting a sculpture made of a flexible material.
Arriccio
the rough first coat of plaster in a fresco.

Transom - A window above a door; if an exterior door the transom window is often fixed, if an interior door it can often open either by hinges at top or bottom, or can rotate about hinges at the middle of its sides.

Skirting - The edging, usually of wood, fixed to the base of an internal wall.
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side light - Usually a long, fixed sash found in pairs along side a window or door ...

GUTTER On a building, a trough fixed under or along the eaves for draining rainwater from a roof.
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It was protected front and back by panelling and the great rood or crucifix would have been fixed to the front.
Many rood lofts and crucifixes were destroyed at the Reformation. All that remains in St Lawrence are the stairways to access the loft ...

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