Wall Plate.
A timber laid longitudinally along the top of a building wall to receive the ends of the rafters. In a timber framed building the posts and studs of the wall below are tenoned into it.
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Wall Plate: Timber placed at the eaves of a roof, to take the weight of the roof timbers.
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Wall Plate Timber normally fixed on top of a wall to receive floor joists or roof rafters.
Wall Tie Usually a piece of metal bedded into the inner and outer leaves of a cavity wall to provide a physical connection between the two.
Wall Plate Timber placed at the top of a wall, designed to take the weight of the roof or floor timbers.
Wall Tie See 'cavity wall tie'.
Waste Pipe A pipe from a wash hand basin, sink or bath to carry away the waste water into the drains.
Wall plate: In wood-frame construction involving wall studs, the studs (which see) are nailed at the top end to a top plate and at the bottom end to a bottom plate. These plates are made from lumber of the same dimensions (e.g.
Wall plate
- a timber laid along the top of a wall, rafter ends and studs and posts from below may be joined to it.
See roof.
Vocabulary
WALL PLATE - the top of the wall, where the rafters connect to the wall.
POST - the main vertical pieces of wood in a wall.
BRACE - the diagonal (can be curved or straight) piece of wood that helps strengthen the frame.
Collar Beam - horizontal tie beam of a roof, which is joined to opposing rafters at a level above that of the wall plates.
Collar - horizontal timber member designed to restrain opposing roof slopes.
Rafter: roof-timber sloping up from the wall plate to the ridge.
Principal: principal rafter, usually corresponding to the main bay divisions of the nave or chancel below.
Wall Plate: timber laid longitudinally on the top of a wall.
Roof Run - The horizontal distance from the outside of a bearing wall plate to the center of the ridge rafter.
Roof Span - Equal to twice the roof run, or the horizontal distance between the outside faces of bearing wall plates.
Hip - The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
Hip Roof - A roof which has four sloping sides that meet at four hips or at four hips and a ridge.
Plate - A length of timber or steel placed either on top of a wall to support the roof trusses (a wall plate) or fixed to a floor so that studs or a timber-framed partition can be installed (a floor plate).
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Wall plates - A horizontal timber along the top of a wall at eaves level.
Wall string - The string on the side of a stair next to the wall, as opposed to the outer string.
W Wall Plate: Horizontal roof-timber on wall-top. Wall Stair: Staircase built into the thickness of a wall.
 See also: Frame, Beam, Timber, Floor, Joist
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