enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Deck railing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_railing

    In between the posts, two 2x4s are attached to the posts with screws for the best connection. The lower board is placed 3.5" from the top of the finish deck to the bottom of the board. The top board is placed with the top at 35" from the deck. Then the vertical 2x2 pressure treated wood balusters are installed spaced regularly every 3.5". Then ...

  3. Post (structural) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_(structural)

    Timber framing is a general term for building with wooden posts and beams. The term post is the namesake of other general names for timber framing such as post-and-beam, post-and-girt construction and more specific types of timber framing such as Post and lintel, post-frame, post in ground, and ridge-post construction.

  4. Engawa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engawa

    The solid wood amado leaning up against the corner is a storm shutter, and is usually stored away. An engawa (縁側/掾側) or en (縁) is an edging strip of non-tatami-matted flooring in Japanese architecture, usually wood or bamboo. The en may run around the rooms, on the outside of the building, in which case they resemble a porch or sunroom.

  5. Taffrail - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffrail

    In naval architecture, a taffrail is the handrail around the open deck area toward the stern of a ship or boat. The rear deck of a ship is often called the afterdeck or poop deck. Not all ships have an afterdeck or poop deck. Sometimes taffrail refers to just the curved wooden top of the stern of a sailing man-of-war or East Indiaman ship.

  6. Hold down (structural engineering) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_down_(structural...

    Holdown (holdown, hold-down, or hold down) or tie-down in structural engineering refers to the steel device or hardware that is installed at the end of a plywood shear wall. The hold downs provide uplift resistance against the overturning moment imposed on the wall due to "in-plane" lateral load applied at the top of the wall.

  7. Frame and panel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_and_panel

    Panels are made slightly smaller than the available space within the frame to provide room for movement. Wood will expand and contract across the grain, and a wide panel made of solid wood could change width by a half of an inch, warping the door frame. By allowing the wood panel to float, it can expand and contract without damaging the door.

  8. Deck (building) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_(building)

    Decks can also be covered by a canopy or pergola to control sunlight. Deck designs can be found in numerous books, do-it-yourself magazines, and websites, and from the USDA. [8] Typical construction is either of a post and beam architecture, or a cantilever construction. The post-and-beam construction relies on posts anchored to piers in the ...

  9. Door - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door

    Lock block – A solid block of wood mounted within a hollow-core flush door near the bolt to provide a solid and stable location for mounting the door's hardware. Stave-core – Consists of wooden slats stacked upon one another in a manner similar to a board & batten door (though the slats are usually thinner) or the wooden-block hollow-core ...