| Hand and Electric drills | Used for drilling holes in various materials e.g tiles... | |
| Hand Board. | (or Hawke) Used by Tiler / Slater to hold mortar whilst working with a pointing trowel... | |
| Hand-Made Brick | An expensive brick but sought for their charm and distinctiveness in colour and texture. The individ... | |
| Hard: | Craft term used when plumbing the work, at a quoin, that describes that the corner is not plumb but ... | |
| Haunch: | The portion of an arch situated mid-way between the crown and the springing.... | |
| Hawk: | Made of wood or metal. A square flat plate with a round handle on the underside and held in one hand... | |
| Hawke. | (or Hand Board) Used by Tiler / Slater to hold mortar whilst working with a pointing trowel... | |
| Head Nail | Nailing slates to battens approx 25mm below head of slate.... | |
| Heading Bond: | A quarter bond consisting entirely of Headers on every course; rarely used for straight walls. Used ... | |
| Heavy Duty Tile Cutter | A hand operated machine with handle and scribe mounted on a central pillar. After scribing the long ... | |
| Herring bone | A common alternative bonding for floor tiling.... | |
| Herringbone Pattern: | Created by setting the bricks, in alternate rows, at 90 degs. to each other but at 45 degs. to the h... | |
| Hip | The sloping intersection of 2 (two) inclined roof slopes meeting at a salient angle.... | |
| Hip | Intersection of 2 (two) external roof slopes changing external direction.... | |
| Hip Iron | Bent metal strap screwed to the bottom end of hip rafter to prevent hip ridges from sliding off roof... | |
| Holing Bench | Scaffold boards supported by bricks or a similar bench on which to hole slates over a double spiked ... | |
| Holing Machine | Manufactured piece of equipment for the purpose of holing slates. The machine could be adjusted to t... | |
| Impost: | Projecting course or courses at the top of a pier from which an arch springs.... | |
| Indents: | Series of vertical recesses formed in alternate courses, as the wall is built, at a position where a... | |
| Insulation Boarding | A manufactured product, often in densely compressed polystyrene, inserted into the backing layers ah... | |
