Showing posts with label construction terms and definitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction terms and definitions. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Construction Terms and Sayings

Shit load is not an actual construction measurement.

Fart fan is completely interchangeable with bathroom exhaust fan.

Board Stretcher - no such thing Newbie, now go get the lefthanded screwdriver.

Pond Dried - lumber that has not been dried. You can tell because wet lumber is very heavy.

The Boneyard is an area behind your Tile Store where they toss scrap tile. A good resource for small tile projects and art projects. Other suppliers call the area with stored leftover material a boneyard even though it doesn't quite fit with windows or doors.

P.O.S. is a "piece of shit" - a vacant houses left unattended for years, sometimes uncared for rental properties fall into this category.


First rule of timeframes - sometimes it can’t happen any faster…
“You can’t get nine women pregnant and have a baby in a month, sometimes it just takes the full nine months.”