Carpentry the art and trade of cutting working and joining timber.
Carpentry in construction definition. The art or trade of a carpenter specifically. The art of shaping and assembling structural woodwork. The term includes both structural timberwork in framing and items such as doors windows and staircases. Carpentry is often part of the first fix of timber components in the construction of roofs floors walls and other timber framed constructions.
Timberwork constructed by a carpenter. The weight of permanent and stationary construction included in a building see the live load carpentry term. The form or manner of putting together the parts as of a literary or musical composition. Carpentry terms beginning with j.
Carpenters may also required to prepare shuttering formwork into. It is also often part of second fix works such as the construction of skirting boards architraves doors and so on. In the united states 98 5 of carpenters. A carpentry term used to describe a mark on a piece of wood or other material that is defined by two or more lines extending out and originating from one point the mark.
An i beam is a type of steel used in construction. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did the rougher work such as framing but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetmaking and furniture building are considered carpentry. In the past when buildings were often wholly constructed of timber framing the carpenter played a considerable part in.