- Branche: Construction
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Slight indentations causing a ripple effect on the surface of a wood floor. They are usually caused by sanding machines that have out of balance drums, bad drive belts or foreign objects stuck to the wheels. The marks are most noticeable on gloss finishes, in direct light areas or at eye level.
Industry:Construction
Usually a cotton cord coated with chalk. The cord is pulled taunt and snapped to mark a straight line. The chalk line is used to align spots, screeds and tiles.
Industry:Construction
Special cutting blades that are available for most power cutting tools.
Industry:Construction
That portion of a structure which projects beyond its own support is cantilevered.
Industry:Construction
Taking the fused mass of vinyl from the mixer and placing it onto two, hot, large rotating rolls and allowing the mass to be squeezed into a thin sheet; similar to a dough roller.
Industry:Construction
A swirl or twist of the grain of the wood that usually occurs near a knot, but doesn't contain a knot, commonly found in the stump of a tree and where limbs branch out from the tree.
Industry:Construction
A finishing material, usually of a transparent nature, used over the sealer or color coats and under the finishing coats to increase the fullness of the finished work.
Industry:Construction
The appearance of bubbles in the film of finish while a finishing material is being applied. It is caused by any condition that causes air, vapors or gases to be trapped in the film while it's soft, but after it has hardened sufficiently to prevent the gas from escaping.
Industry:Construction
