| Backer Board | Inert sheet material, often cement or polystyrene based, increasingly used to provide a stable and m... | |
| Backgrounds | General term used for all surfaces to which tiling is adhered.... | |
| Bargeboard | A member usually of timber or PVC along the edge of a gable covering an external rafter or cut splay... | |
| Basket Weave: | Sets of three stretchers laid horizontally and vertically in alternate groups. They can be inclined ... | |
| Batten | Timber strip fixed to the wall to support the first whole course of tiling.... | |
| Battens | (or Lathe or Lattes) Horizontal lengths of timber fixed to the roof rafters to support the slates or... | |
| Battered Buttress: | Sloping pier to increase the lateral strength of a wall. The bed joints of the Buttress are set at 9... | |
| Battered Work: | A wall that is built with a backward slope on its face, e.g. a retaining wall or tall chimney.... | |
| Bed | Depth of applied adhesive or mortar.... | |
| Bedding | Mortar or filling at ridge, hips or verges to close off the open joint.... | |
| Bevelled Closer | A brick cut, with a bevel, along its length reducing a header at one end to 56 mm. (See Bonding)... | |
| Bevelled Closer: | The brick is bevelled, along its bed length, to reduce it to a 56mm closer on its face. Used in wall... | |
| Biscuit | The base body of a glazed wall tile that is pressed and fired as a separate process before glazing a... | |
| Block Bonded Quoin: | The use of contrasting face bricks to create a series of alternating blocks (usually three courses h... | |
| Block Bonding: | A method of preparing an existing wall so that a future wall can be tied in at a later date. The exi... | |
| Block-Work: | Walls built of Blocks as opposed to Bricks; may be used externally, with a rendered finish, but more... | |
| Boat Level: | A short wooden or aluminium spirit level, about 225mm long, that has a boat like appearance and may ... | |
| Bolster | Heavy chisel for cutting out, used with lump hammer.... | |
| Bolster: | Also known as a Boaster. It is a thin flat steel chisel, 100mm wide, and used with a Lump Hammer for... | |
| Bonding Agents | Manufactured products incorporating PVA (polyvinyl acetates), SBR (styrene butadiene rubber) or AR (... | |
