| Toothing: | If it becomes necessary to stop building a wall, to be completed at a later stage, this can be achie... | |
| Top edge | Upper edge of roof slope finishing at a ridge or against a front edge of a protrusion through roof s... | |
| Trammel Heads: | Used to set out large radius curves, e.g. full size arch curves. Produced as a pair of brass slotted... | |
| Trammel: | A rod used to set the first few courses of a wall circular on plan, say up to a radius of 2m. The ro... | |
| Traversing: | Process used for setting out an arch. The line of the intrados is marked on the face templet which i... | |
| Trowels | Various shapes and sizes used for bedding and pointing cement work.... | |
| Tuck Pointing: | Originally known as \tuck and pat work". Developed early in the 18th. Cent. it remained popular up t... | |
| Tudor Arch: | This four-centred arch, with its clearly defined compound curve, is one of the most popular of arch ... | |
| Tumbling-In: | A method of reducing the projection of an attached pier, or the width of an external chimney breast,... | |
| Tunnel kiln | The predecessor of the modern day roller kiln, where tiles were stacked on wheeled wagons which were... | |
| Turning Piece: | A temporary support for small arches. Made from one piece of solid timber, that is cut to the requir... | |
| Twin Tile | Vernacular name given to extruded material, both glazed and unglazed, originally a patented name. Th... | |
| Undercloak. | An additional course of slates or tiles at Eaves, Verge or metal Valley... | |
| Underfloor heating | A now common form of heating used in conjunction with floor tiling, with either piped water or elect... | |
| Valley | Intersection of 2 (two) internal roof slopes changing internal direction.... | |
| Verge | See Gable above - an outside edge of the roof finished either with tile or slate undercloak bedded i... | |
| Verge: | Courses of brickwork, usually two or three, which slope with the pitch of the roof to create a finis... | |
| Vertical | A roof elevation at 90¡ from the horizontal clad in slates, tiles or boarding.... | |
| Vitrified | A term used to indicate a floor tile with a dense structure and very low water absorption.... | |
| Voussoir | Used to describe the double rake cutting necessary to produce tapering pieces of tile or mosaic when... | |
