Lumber

Lumber

Timber after it has been sawed and split into planks or other smaller components that can be used as building material.

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Humidity

Building materials; Lumber

A general term for the presence of water vapour in air. There is a known limit to the amount of water vapour that air can hold at any particular temperature.

Flooring

Building materials; Lumber

The covering of internal floors in a building. Lumber flooring includes tongue and groove strip flooring, parquetry, panel flooring, particleboard and plywood.

Nogging

Building materials; Lumber

A short horizontal lumber strut fixed between studs or joists in framed construction to provide lateral stiffening and intermediate fixing points for cladding or lining

Dryer

Building materials; Lumber

A chamber or apparatus used for drying or conditioning lumber or veneer in which the temperature, humidity and velocity of the circulating air are usually controlled.

Vertically laminated timber

Building materials; Lumber

Laminated timber designed to resist bending loads applied parallel to the wide face of the laminations. For vertical loads, this means that the wide face runs vertically.

Shake

Building materials; Lumber

Separation or breakage of the wood fibres caused by stresses in the standing tree or by felling and handling of the log. It is not caused by shrinkage during drying.

Wet-bulb temperature

Building materials; Lumber

Temperature indicated by any temperature-measuring device, the sensitive element of which is covered by a smooth, clean, soft, water saturated cloth or wet-bulb wick.