MORTAR A mixture of sand, water, lime and cement used to lay bricks, stone, tile or concrete block.
MULLIONS The wooden divisions between panes of glass on windows.
Mortar
A mix of sand, cement and water used to bind together blocks, bricks and building stone in construction work.
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Mortar
Mortar is made up of cement, lime, and sand. Mortar color can be achieved by using colored sand or mineral oxide pigments.
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Mortar: Mixture of sand, cement, lime and water, used to join stones or bricks.
Mullion: Vertical bar dividing individual lights in a window.
Mortar - A mixture of sand, water, and lime used to bind stones together; as opposed to drylaid masonry.
Motte - A mound of earth on which a tower was built; artificial conical earth mound (sometimes an old barrow) for the keep ...
Mortar Mixture of sand, cement and water used to join blocks or bricks. In period buildings lime can be used.
Mullion A vertical bar dividing individual lights in a window.
weeping mortar
This decorative mortar appears to "drip'' out between the exterior bricks in a home.
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Mortar
- a mixture traditionally including an aggregate, slacked lime or clay, any appropriate additive and water which is used for pointing and bedding masonry. In modern times, portland cement has been more widely used.
mortar - a material used in the plastic state and troweled into place to harden (see lime mortar, portland cement); used to consolidate brick, stone, and concrete block work
mullion - the subsidiary vertical member of a frame of a door or window ...
Stucco is a mortar mixture used for siding. Stucco can be made by mixing sand and lime with water and various other ingredients, most often cement. Usually, wooden walls are covered with tar paper and chicken wire or galvanized metal screening.
including any mortar laid with them.
Cover Flashing - vertical flashing overlapping the vertical upturned parts of a roof covering or other flashing.
Coving - curved junction between wall and ceiling.
The process of building a vault requires first a temporary carpentry structure, called centring, which supports the masonry until the shell has been completed and the mortar has set.
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 ...
Wet trades - Trades that use concrete, mortar or plaster including brickwork and finishings such as screeds, terrazzo or tiling bedded in mortar. Completed work must be protected from frost and given time for curing.
In provincial towns and in other parts of the Roman Empire, where the material pozzolana was not procurable, the Romans had to trust to their mortar as a cementing medium, but this, though excellent of its kind, ...
In the mountains buildings are made out of rubble stone with mud mortar, their roofs made of wooden beams covered with matting and an exterior coating of earth. The region of the Hauran in the southeast is predominantly basalt desert with no trees.
Pins or pinning(Scots): Lines of tiny stones used decoratively in the mortar joints.PisWalling material of clay mixed with straw. Also called cob.
The difference in nomenclature between stucco, plaster, and mortar is based more on use than composition.
Since the blocks were set directly against each other without the use of mortar, the joint had to be exact.
It is an approach that has its origins in the period before the invention of high-strength cement mortars, which made bonding of this kind unnecessary; but the patterns survive, representing a cultural tradition now, ...
If golden vessels, vials and mortars were used to collect "the blood of goats or calves or the red heifer, how much more" should gold vases, ...
intonaco - is the old Italian name applied to the last mortar layer upon which a fresco painting is made.
PointingExposed mortar jointing of masonry or brickwork. It can be flush or recessed. Bag-rubbed pointing is flush at the edges and gently recessed in the middle. Ribbon pointing has joints formed with a trowel so that they stand out.
Galleting - Inserting into mortar courses, while still soft, small pieces of stone, chips of flint, etc., sometimes for structural but usually for decorative reasons.
stone construction using large, irregular blocks without mortar.
Cylinder seal
a small cylinder of stone or other material engraved in intaglio on its outer surface and used (especially in Mesopotamia) to roll an impression on wet clay.
Tuckpointed - Method of finishing joints of face-brickwork, with mortar, coloured to match the bricks on which a lime-putty bead is run to form a crisp white delineation of the bonding.
The material that was used to bind the stones together is called mortar. This is a material which was helped to bind the bricks and other building materials together. It was sort of like a very primitive form of cement.
Floor plate - A plate constructed from steel or timber bedded in mortar and designed to withstand heavy loads.
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Footprint - The 'footprint' of the building refers to those parts within the external walls.
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Bond Refers to the pattern formed by mortar joints between bricks, blocks or stones.
Bricks Common building blocks made from clay burnt in a kiln.
centring: temporary wooden scaffolding on which an arch or vault rests until the mortar has set.
chancel: east end of a church containing the altar; in a large church, east of the choir; in a smaller one, east of the nave or crossing.
Bond (F adhérence, R aderenta) Adherence between materials such as bricks/mortar, or plies of felt, or between felts and other elements of roof systems, which use bitumen or other materials as the cementing agent ...
Squared-off blocks of stone used in construction, laid adjacent to one another, allowing a very thin mortar joint.
Balustrade
An entire railing system along the edge of a balcony or stairwell, including the top rail, bottom rail and balusters.
Pointing - The treatment of joints in masonry for appearance or protection by filling with mortar under tool pressure and usually to a definite form; the filling placed in joints of roofing of slate, tile, etc., as a closure.
pointing, repointing The treatment of joints between bricks, stone, or other masonry components by filling with mortar; also, called tuck-pointing.
portico A small porch composed of a roof supported by columns, often found in front of a doorway.
Brickwork - masonry set by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar to build up brick structures such as walls.
arched roof or ceiling of stone and mortar, usually supported by ribs
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The process in which the gallets or small splinters of stone are inserted in the joints of coarse masonry to protect the mortar joints. They are stuc...
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3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) Also called rendering coat render a coat of plaster or cement mortar applied to a surface ...
Within the spandrel are other decorations, also on the educational theme. There is a rectangular hoodmold around the doorway, and at the end of it is a label stop carved in the shape of a student's head, wearing a mortar board.
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