Common Construction Words to know
Home Building Basics
Your home is your identity and you get only one chance to build it. To take the right decisions at the right time, it is important to understand the basics of home building.
We have created a list of important terms related to stages, practices or materials around home building which will help you to take informed choices at every step.
- AAC Blocks
- ADHESIVE
- Admixtures
- Aggregate
- Architect
- Asphalt
- Baluster
- Basement
- Beam
- Bricks
- Caulk
- Ceiling
- Cement
- Cement Bricks
- Cement Grades
- Cement Slurry
- Ceramic Tiles
- Civil Engineer
- Concrete
- Concrete cube test
- Crank Bar
- Dowel Bars
- Drywall
- Durable Concrete
- Eaves
- Epoxy Grout
- Excavation
- Expansion Joint
- False Ceiling
- Fascia Board
- Fibreglass Windows
- Filler Slab
- Flooring
- Fly Ash Bricks
- Formwork
- Foundation
- Gable Roof
- Gravel
- Grout
- Gypsum Board
- HVAC
- I-beam or I Beam
- Joist
- Lath
- Lintel
- Lumber
- M Sand
- Masonry
- Mortar
- Newel
- Parapet Walls
- Parging
- Pile Foundation
- Plaster
- Plastering
- Plinth Beam
- Porcelain Tiles
- Portland Cement
- PPC Cement
- Prestressed Concrete
- Purlin
- Rafter
- RCC (Reinforced Cement Concrete)
- Rebar (Reinforcement Bar)
- Red Bricks
- River Sand
- Roof
- Sand
- Screed Concrete
- Screeding
- Self-Compacting Concrete or Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC)
- Shuttering
- Siding
- Slab
- Soil
- Stairs
- Steel
- Stone
- Suspended Ceiling
- TMT Bars
- Vastu Shastra
- Wall Stud
- Water Tank
- Waterproofing
- Welding
- White Cement