Glossary
This glossary is set out in alphabetical order to help explain wording and technical terms contained throughout the site. This will help to familiarise you with wordings and phrases that will also help you when dealing with your architects and builders.
- Bathroom
- Bidders
- Brickwork
- Brickwork to DPC
- Brickwork to first floor joists
- Brickwork to plate
- Brickwork to gables
- Bricklayer
- Brief
- Budget
- Builder
- Building Regulations
- Built Environment
- Carpentry
- Carpentry 2nd fix
- Carpenter
- Ceilings
- Certificate of Lawful Development
- Cleaning
- Competitive Bidding
- Concrete foundations
- Contractor
- Contract Documents
- Construction Team
- Damp Proof Course (dpc)
- Damp Proof Membrane (dpm)
- Design Process
- Drainage
- Drawings
- Drives
- Dry lining
- Electrical 1st fix
- Electrical 2nd fix
- External Doors
- External Windows / Glazing
- External works
- Excavation
- Fencing
- Finishings
- Finals
- First Fix (1st fix)
- First Floor Joists
- First floor boarding
- Floor - ground / first / suspended
- Foundations
- Groundworker
- Heating
- Internal doors
- Joists
- Kitchens
- Loft insulation
- Making Good
- Materials
- Mastic Pointing
- Oversite
- Painting
- Paths and Patios
- Permitted development
- Planning Application
- Planning Permission
- Plasterboarding
- Plastering
- Plumbing 1st fix
- Preliminaries
- Pricing Schedule
- Provisional Sum
- Roof Construction / trusses
- Roof Covering
- Royal Institute of British Architects
- Sanitaryware
- Scaffolding
- Scope of Works
- Second fix (2nd fix)
- Service trenches & ducts
- Specification
- Staircase
- Stud walls
- Substructure
- Sundries
- Superstructure
- Topsoil and landscaping
- Wall tiling
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