Gauged Arch: | Work of the highest quality; an arch built with soft red bricks known as Rubbers. These bricks are m... | |
Gauged Work: | See Decorative Work.... | |
Gauged Work: | The most skilled work of the craft. The bricks, known as Rubbers, are made oversize from a clay with... | |
Gauging Trowel | Standard trowel for the application of bedding mortar or adhesive to tile backs.... | |
Geometric Tiling | Tile shapes of more than one colour and several sizes laid to form a pattern. See also Tessellated.... | |
Giraffe | The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest living ter... | |
Glass Block Work: | See Bricks and Materials.... | |
Glass Blocks | These vary in size, and thickness, with a range of surfaces and colour tints. May be used internally... | |
Glass Mosaic | Square or rectangular material cast from molten glass, face mounted on paper or backed onto nylon me... | |
Glaze | A ceramic coating in a glassy state or the material from which this coating is made.... | |
Glazed Brick | These bricks, now obsolete, were classified into three groups: enamelled; sprayed, and salt glazed. ... | |
Glazed Fireclay | A single fired material, with waterproof properties based on vitrification.... | |
Glazed Terra Cotta | A material similar to faience but single fired.... | |
Gothic Arch: | Also known as a two-centre arch. It is best described as the inclination of two segmental arches, fr... | |
Grout | Usually cement based, often tinted and formulated with varying sized fine aggregates to suit a wide ... | |
Grout Rake | A metal hand tool with tungsten embedded in the blade for the removal of set grout from a narrow joi... | |
Gun: | Made from two short lengths of 50 x 25 batten that is half jointed to form an obtuse angle (gun like... | |
Gutter | Can be internal / external to carry water being discharged from roof slope... | |
Gutter. | Rain water channel fixed to fascia at eaves level to collect rain water discharging from roof slope ... | |
Hammers | 3 types - Slate hammer, Tile hammer, Lath hammer,... | |