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1. Carcasses If a carpenter or joiner mentions carcasses, they are actually talking about kitchen cabinets, for example, rather than dead animals' bodies. In builder terms, carcasses are any item of storage furniture shaped like a box, as opposed to something that has a surrounding frame, like a table or a chair. It is safer to assume when you come home and your builder says he has a carcass for you it will be a nice reason and not something to get upset about. 2. Jigsaw Fetching a jigsaw doesn't mean it's play time for tradespeople – it's the name of a tool used to cut wood intricately - not something that has 200 pieces. It is made up of an electric motor and a reciprocating saw blade. Jigsaws with sole plates that have a function can cut angles typically up to 45 degrees relative to the normal vertical stroke. In the past, what are now usually called scroll saws were often referred to as jigsaws in the past. 3. Chippie Chippie is a quick way of usually referring to softwood boards, often known as chipboard, in various densities when we are talking trade. They aren't usually on about popping down to your local chip shop for a fish and chip dinner on Fridays. Chippie is also the slang term for a joiner or a carpenter or anyone who works with wood, again, connected with the word chipboard. Don't assume your builder will welcome you home with a nice battered cod. 4. Catch Tradesmen and women you hire and talking about a catch will usually mean the mechanism that helps keep cupboard doors shut, rather than fishing along the local canal or willing you to take hold of a rugby ball. It seems like the word is fast becoming a popular term for the shutting mechanism with a simple Google searching churning out the many results, but it could still leave people feeling confused. So perhaps don't pull out the baseball gloves just yet. 5. Throat Don't panic if you a tradesman or woman wants to discuss problems with your throat – it's the narrowed part of a chimney above stoves or fireplaces. It is a part of a chimney immediately above the fireplace where the walls of the flue are gathered or brought close together to increase the draft. Phew. So don't think you have glandular fever and rush yourself off to the nearest doctors, just simply get your chimney in order before it is too late. 6. Rafter The rafters are one of a series of sloping, diagonal wooden beams that hold the structure of a typical, pointed house roof. They are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads. A pair of rafters is called a couple. In home construction, rafters are normally made of wood. Exposed rafters are a feature of some traditional roof styles. Don't worry, you won't be riding the waves with your builders off into the sunset anytime soon. 7. Party wall A party wall isn't where you keep your drinks or music, but rather a shared property boundary, such as a wall in a semi-detached house, that both sides have legal rights to. It is a wall that stands astride the boundary of land belonging to two (or more) different owners. Examples include walls separating terraced or semi-detached houses or walls that form the boundary between two gardens, known as a 'party fence wall'. So no partying, unless the neighbours on the other side of the party wall are ok with it. 8. Lagging Lagging doesn't reference a delay in the work at your house so keep your cool and don't tear a strip off your poor workmen and women. They are referring to the insulation that covers pipes to regulate the temperature. Pipe lagging is a special type of insulation fitted around water pipes. It keeps heat within the pipes - so it's useful for saving energy as well as preventing pipes from freezing and bursting. Lagging also prevents condensation forming on your cold pipes

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9. Eggshell This is a type of paint decorators use, not what they had for breakfast. Eggshell paint gives a glossier finish than matt paint, but isn't quite high gloss. Eggshell paint is a type of paint finish that does actually look like the surface of an eggshell. Comparing it to more commonly found finishes in the UK, it has less of a sheen than satin or silk but more than that of matt emulsion paint or 'satinwood'. So when your workers ask if you want eggshell don't assume they have a ruck of chickens in the shed. 10. First and second fix First fix comprises all the work needed to take a building from foundation to putting plaster on the internal walls. This include constructing walls, floors and ceilings and inserting cables for electricial supply and pipes for water supply. Second fix comprises all the work after the plastering of a finished house. Electrical fixtures are connected to the cables, sinks and baths connected to the pipes, and doors fitted into doorframes. Second fix work requires a neater finish than first fix. 11. Cladding Cladding is the thin layer of material applied to the outside of a building, usually for decorative reasons – it can be natural, for example stone, or man-made materials. It is the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer. In construction, cladding is used to provide a degree of thermal insulation and weather resistance, and to improve the appearance of buildings. It can become a fire risk by design or material. 12. Felling Felling a tree in the garden means to deliberately cut it down with an axe by a woodcutter, to leave a stump behind. This is rather than referring to one which has fallen naturally, such as in a storm or through disease. It is an element of the task of logging. The person cutting the trees is a feller - not a slang term for a man. 13. Grout This is the material used to fill in the gaps between tiles in bathrooms and kitchens. Grout is generally a mixture of water, cement, and sand and is employed in pressure grouting, embedding the mixture in masonry walls, connecting sections of pre-cast concrete, filling voids, and sealing joints such as those between tiles. It basically means you will have no gaps between your tiles making your new bathroom or kitchen look a lot smarter. 14. Quoin Quoins are both the corners of walls and the specific blocks used to construct the corner, even if they are only decorative and not structurally integral. Some quoins are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while many of the other blocks merely add aesthetic detail to a corner providing a shelf perhaps. These imply strength, permanence, and expense, all reinforcing the onlooker's sense of a structure's presence. 15. Hard water Plumbers identify this type of water when it contains a particularly high concentration of minerals including calcium and magnesium, causing more limescale deposits. Hard water is formed when water moves through deposits of limestone, chalk or gypsum which are largely made up of calcium and magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates and sulfates. Hard drinking water may have moderate health benefits, but can pose critical problems in industrial settings, where water hardness is monitored to avoid costly breakdowns in boilers, cooling towers, and other equipment that handles water. In the home, you may find more limescale formation on your kettles and taps.

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16. Grey water Waste water from all domestic use other than toilets is often referred to by tradespeople as grey water. It is wastewater is generated in households or office buildings. Sources of greywater include, sinks, showers, baths, clothes washing machines or dish washers. All greywater has the potential to harbor dangerous bacteria and viruses. Micro-organisms present in untreated greywater can cause damage to foliage. Most greywater is easier to treat and recycle than blackwater (sewage), because of lower levels of contaminants. Recycled greywater of this kind is never safe to drink. 17. Aggregate Aggregate material is crushed stone or rock – it can mean sand, ballast, gravel or other loose building material that comes in small particles. It has been mined or quarried for use as a building material. They are also used as base material under foundations such as roads. Many aggregate products of various types are recycled for other industrial purposes with economic and environmental benefits to the local and surrounding area. 18. Drafting If someone working in architectural services speaks of drafting, they are referring to getting blueprints or plans drawn up. Technical drawing, drafting, draughting or drawing, is the act composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing is essential for making sure your builders have all the measurements they need to construct your property. 19. Grain The grain is the direction of the wood fibres in a piece of timber – hence it's bad to go 'against the grain'.

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