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Wood
itis a traditional building material, itis easily worked, has durability and beauty. It has great
ability to absorb shocks from sudden load. In addition, wood has freedom from rust and
corrosion, is comparatively light in weight, and is adaptable to countless variety of purposes.
Classification of Trees:
1. Hardwoods — ‘deciduous’ trees that have broad leaves which are normally shed in the winter
time.
2. Softwoods — ‘conifers’ trees that have needles rather than leaves and that bear their seeds in
cones.
Moisture Content of Wood — expressed as a percentage of the oven-dry weight and can be
determined by the oven-dry method or by an electric-moisture meter method.
Three categories of Lumber:
1. Yard Lumber - used for ordinary light construction and finishing work and consists of 4
and 2 inches material manufactured into common boards, shiplap, shelving dimension
lumber, center match, flooring, roof plank, siding, v-joint, trim and molding of all kinds.
These are usually found in retail lumberyards.
2. Shop Lumber — usually left in 1 and 2 inches rough thickness often containing knots or
defects not ordinarily permissible in other categories. It is intended for use in shops or
mills making sash, doors and cabinets where it will be cut into relatively short pieces and
the defective material discarded.
3. Structural Lumber — in intended for use in heavy construction for load-bearing purposes
and is cut into timbers of large size than yard lumber, 3 inches or more thick and 4 inches
or more wide. It is made from the heartwood of the log.
Finishes of Wood:
= $18 — surfacing or planning of one side
= $28 — two sides planed
= S45 — four sides planed
= Rough — as sawn and not planed
Wood Grain:
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1. Edge Grain — annual rings run approximately at right angle to the face
2. Flat Grain — when the annual rings run more or less parallel to the surface.
3. Angle Grain — when the annual rings are at about 45 degrees to the face.
Seasoning of Lumber:
1. Air-Drying — lumber is strip-piled at a slope on a solid foundation. This allows air to circulate
around every piece while the sloping allows water to run off quickly.
2. Kiln-Drying - more expensive lumber which is required for more refined uses so as wood will
not move, such as furniture. Flooring and general interior use.
Pressure treated lumber is when lumber is subjected to pressure and injected with chemicals or
salts to insure it from rots.
Specification when buying lumber:
Indicate no. of pieces, thickness, width, length, total bd. Ft. kind of lumber and finish.
Example: 6-2" x 8" x 14-0" = 112 bd. Ft. tanguile S4S
Glue laminated timber — term used to describe a wooden member built up of several layers of wood
whose grain directions are all substantially parallel, and held together with glue as fastening
commonly used for beams, girders, posts, columns, arches, arches, bowstring truss chords, usually
softwoods are commonly used because of their low cost, lightness and strength.
Glue use
laminating:
1. Casein glue — satisfactory for use in dry locations not exposed to rain or water.
2, Urea-formaldehyde-resin — cheap and well cure at from 70 degrees Fahrenheit up. Will
withstand soaking in cool water.
3. Phenol-formaldehyde-resin glues — not usually recommended because of the high
temperature needed to cure them. Useful for combining timber and plywood and are very
water-resistant,
4. Resorcinol-phenol-formaldehyde — resin glues are expensive but have excellent
qualities of durability and water resistance.
Recycled Waste Products, Building Boards and Papers
Building Boards — a group of sheets of building materials often faced with paper or vinyl,
suitable for use as a finished surface on walls, ceiling, etc.
Kinds of Building Boards:
1. Plywood — made by bonding together thin layers of wood in a way that the grain of each layer
is at right angles to the grain of each adjacent layer.
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= Veneer - each layer of plywood
= Rotary Cutting — a method of cutting wood veneer in which a log is fixed in a lathe and
rotated against a knife so that the veneer is peeled from the log in a continuous sheet.
2. Hardboard — made from processed wood chips.
Three grades of board:
= Standard — flexible to be quite easily bent
= Tempered hardboard - made by impregnated standard board with a tempering
compound of oils and resin and baking it to polymerize the tempering material
= Low-density hardboard — not as strong and durable as standard hardboard.
3, Insulating Fiberboard - made from three types of fiber - wood, sugar cane, and
asbestos, and binder, formed into a board.
4. Chipboard — a large class of building board made from wood and particles and a binder,
often faced with veneer.
5. Particle Board — a hardboard made from relatively small particles.
6. Gypsum Board — a wall board having a gypsum core.
7. Straw Board — a hardboard made of compressed wheat straw, processed at 350 to 400
degrees Fahrenheit and covered with a tough kraft paper.
8, Asbestos-cement Board — a dense, rigid board containing a high proportion of asbestos
fibers bonded with Portland cement, resistant to fire, flame, and weathering, has low
resistance to heat flow.
9. Corkboard — from the outer bark of the cork oak tree, cork granules is mixed with synthetic
resin, compressed and formed into sheet from 1 to 6 inches thick and baked under
pressure into rigid boards.
10. Paperboard — made into two different types: a paper pulp pressed into boards 3/16, or “in.
thick, 4 ft. wide, and 6, 7 or 8 ft. long. Usually one surface is primed for easier finishing. The
other is a layer of stiff paper folded into corrugated from and faced on both sides with a thick
paper backing, cemented to the core.
11, Mineral Fiberground — thick mats of mineral fibers, usually glass or rock wool are covered
with a backing of stiff paper on one or both sides to form rigid boards, ranging in thickness
from ¥% to 2 in. The usual board size is 24 x 48 inches.
12. Plastic Foamboards — polystrene and polyurethane plastics are formed by a patented
process to about 40 times their original volume. Used for perimeter insulation for concrete
floor stabs, for wall and roof deck insulation, and for roof decks when properly supported.
Building Papers
In building construction, paper is used for sheathing, roofing and insulation, in making asphalt
shingles, laminated and corrugated building products, and concrete form materials, as a
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moisture and vapor barrier; as cushioning material; as wallpaper; as an envelope or sheath for
other materials; and as a fireproofing material.
Type of Wood Pulp:
1. Mechanical Pulp — or groundwood, is produced by grinding blocks of wood against a
revolving abrasive stone or by grinding steamed wood chips in a grinding mill.
2. Chemical Pulp — produced by digesting wood chips in various chemicals to free the
cellulose fibers from the liquid binding
3, Semi-chemical Pulp — wood chips are first subjected to a mild chemical treatment and
then mechanically disintegrated in rotating disk refiners.
Types of Paper:
Sheathing Paper — used to provide an airtight barrier over walls, floors, ete.
. Roofing Paper
= Roofing felts - used in making a built-up roof and are usually produced in 36 in. wide
rolls, in various weights from 3 to 20 Ib/square.
= Rolledroofing — a heavy, mineral surfaced paper used as a final roof covering, made
18 and 36 in. wide, in various weights from 45 to 120 Ib/square.
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3. Insulating Paper — used to secure bulk and entrapped air with as much strength as
possible. Insulating papers are made from both wood-fiber insulating p aper and asbestos
fibers.
4, Cushioning Paper - similar to wood-fiber insulating paper, but less attention is paid to
strength. Its chief use is for cushioning under linoleum, carpets, or slate roofing.
5, Vapor Barrier Paper- intended to prevent the passage of moisture vapor through walls,
ceilings and floors.
6. Laminating Paper — a special, high strength kraft paper made for use in the production of
plastic laminates. The thin, strong paper is impregnated with liquid plastic resin and
several sheet are laminated together under heat and pressure to form the base for the
plastic sheet,
7. Concrete Form Paper — made from strong kraft paper in the form of a spiral tube and
boxlike from made from corrugated container paper.
8. Wallpaper — paper from which decorative wallpaper is made
9. Envelope Paper — used as an outer covering or envelope for a number of building
materials. One of these is gypsum board, composed of a layer of calcined gypsum
covered in both sides by a sheet of kraft paper.
10. Fire Proofing Paper - made from asbestos fibers, since this is an incombustible material
This material maybe in the form of matted paper, similar to asbestos insulating or roofing
paper, or it may be in the form of a cloth woven from thread spun from asbestos fibers.
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