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This the Stone Terms dictionary. You may find the meanings of some stone related words and phrases.
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Wall plate : a horizontal member anchored to a masonry wall to which other structural elements may be attached. Also called "head plate". Usually steel, 3/16-inch (5mm) in diameter and formed in a "Z" shape or a rectangle.
Wall tie : a bounder or metal piece which connects wythes of masonry to each other or to other materials.
Wall tie cavity : a rigid corrosion-resistant metal tie which bonds two wythes of a cavity wall. It is filling of natural void with colour-blended materials.
Walls : one of the sides of a room or building connecting floor and ceiling or foundation and roof:
Walls bearing : a wall supporting a vertical load in addition to its own weight.
• Cavity a wall in which the inner and outer wythes are separated by an air space but tied together with metal ties.
• Composite – a wall in which the facing and backing are of different materials and bonded together with bond stones to exert a common reaction under load.
• Veneer or face – a wall in which a thin facing and the backing are of different materials but not so bonded as to exert a common reaction under load.
• Wind (wined) – a twisting warp from cutting slabs in the gangsaws.
Warped walls : generally a condition experienced only in flagging or flagstone materials; very common with flagstone materials that are taken from the ground and used in their natural state. To eliminate warping in stones, it would be necessary to further finish the material by methods such as machining, sand rubbing, honing or polishing.
Wash : a sloped area or the area water will run over.
Water bar : typically a strip in a reglet in windowsill and stone below to prevent water passage.
Water table : a projection of lowest masonry on the outside of the wall slightly above the ground. Often a damp course is placed at the level of the water table to prevent upward penetration of ground water.
Waxing : an expression used in the marble finishing trade to indicate the filling of natural voids with colour-blended materials.
Wear : the removal of material or impairment of surface finishing through friction or impact use.
Weathering : natural alteration by either chemical or mechanical processes due to the action of constituents of the atmosphere, surface waters, soil and other ground waters, or to temperature changes; the inclined top surface of a stone such as a coping, cornice, or windowsill.
Wedging : splitting of stone by driving wedges into planes of weakness.
Wire saw : method of cutting stone by passing a twisted, multi-strand wire over the stone and immersing the wire in a slurry of abrasive material.
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