| Bonding: | The skill of the craftsman is to bond the wall in accordance with the designer's specification and m... | |
| Boning Rods: | The rods, about 1.25m long, are in sets of three. Used visually to determine the height of an interm... | |
| Bow and Hand saws. | Used to cut battens to length... | |
| Brake Iron | A spiked iron rod with pointed bottom edge used by slaters to cut and hole slates on the roof to sha... | |
| Breaking strength | Defined in BS EN ISO 10545-4 giving an indication of a tile's resistance to cracking or chipping.... | |
| Brick Bat | Part of a brick when cut square across its width. Bats cut as a quarter, half, or three quarters of ... | |
| Brick Hammer: | The hammer is balanced about its handle with a short curved chisel blade on one side with a square f... | |
| Brick Slip | A face slip; thin slices of brick specially made, or cut, to match the stretchers or headers used in... | |
| Brick Tile | Known as a Mathematical Tile; this special tile has the lower part of the face moulded as a standard... | |
| Brick Trowel: | This trowel, used for all types of work, needs to be of first quality and chosen to suit individual ... | |
| Bricknogging: | A panel of face bricks used as an infill between the members of a timber frame. It is a decorative p... | |
| Broken Bond | Description of the lineable joints in every other course usually half bonded.... | |
| Broken Bond: | This occurs when brick sizes will not fit the designed wall length. This is a common situation and r... | |
| Bull Nose Brick | These may be Single or Double Bull Nose. Either one or two ends of the stretcher face are made with ... | |
| Bull's Eye: | An arch, as a whole circle, forming an opening in a wall mainly for a small circular window but also... | |
| Burrs | Bricks that have been fused together into lumps due to excessive heat in certain parts of the kiln.... | |
| Bush Hammering | Mechanical process to remove laitance from surface of concrete to expose aggregate to provide a stro... | |
| Buttering trowel | Small trowel used to apply adhesive or mortar in back buttering.... | |
| Calcium hardness | A measure of calcium salts in water, important in swimming pools, ideally between 250 ppm Ð 350 ... | |
| Calcium Sulfate screeds | Pump applied self levelling screeds based on a binder of calcium sulfate (gypsum). Cannot be used in... | |
