| Flemish Garden Wall Bond: | For 1B walls and over with three Stretchers between each Header on the same course; the Queen Closer... | |
| Float: | Also a plasterer's tool. Made from wood, or plastic, with a grip that holds a thin flat base approx.... | |
| Floating Screed | 65mm - 75mm screed laid over but not bonded to a sub-floor and separated from it by thermal or acous... | |
| Floor Tile | Material either glazed or unglazed and measuring up to 600 x 600 mm. Characteristics are described i... | |
| Flue Liners: | Liners built to form a flue, in a chimney breast and chimney, which resists the products of combusti... | |
| Folding Wedges: | A pair of matching wooden wedges positioned with the thin edges facing in opposite directions to eac... | |
| Footings: | A term used, in a general way, to describe the structure below ground level. However, it is more cor... | |
| Foundation: | The surface of the sub-soil on which the building rests.... | |
| Frenchman: | Made, by the craftsman, usually from an old table knife. The end of the knife blade is cut to form t... | |
| Frog | A marked indentation, on the upper surface of the brick, which reduces the amount of clay used in ma... | |
| Front Apron: | A sheet lead weathering, in the front of a chimney, that lays over the roof covering and dressed up ... | |
| Frost Resistance | The ability of a ceramic tile to resist frost which is dependent on porosity and water absorption le... | |
| Fully Vitrified | Term used to describe ceramic material with minimal water absorption where porosity has been signifi... | |
| Gable | External brick (or similar) wall cut to line of sloping rafters at end of roof.... | |
| Gable Shoulder: | May be known as a Springer and used at the foot of a brick gable when the roof is to be finished wit... | |
| Gathering: | Inward corbelling above a fireplace recess to reduce the opening to the size required for the flue. ... | |
| Gauge | The distance the roof battens are set apart to support the slates or tiles and determines the slate ... | |
| Gauge Rod: | Used to control the level of each course of a wall as the corners are built. Made from 50mm x 25mm w... | |
| Gauge Stick | Timber batten marked with tile measurements to help establish the most acceptable setting out on eac... | |
| Gauge: | The Gauge is the measurement set for the vertical rise of four courses of brickwork that is pre-set ... | |
