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| Cased
Opening- |
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an interior opening without a
door but finished with jambs and casing. |
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| Casing- |
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| Used to trim inside and outside
door and window openings. |
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| Cavetto- |
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A simple concave moulding; a
cove. |
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| Chair
Rail- |
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| An interior moulding usually
applied about on third the distance from the floor, paralleling the
base moulding and encircling the perimeter of a room.
Originally used to prevent chairs from marring walls. Used
today is as a decorative element or a divider between different wall
covering such as wallpaper and paint or wainscoting. |
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| Champher
Strip- |
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A triangular moulding often
used in concrete forming work. |
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| CLF- |
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Abbreviation for "hundred
lineal feet." |
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| Coping- |
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Carpentry process by which a
moulding such as a crown is sawn on the adjourning end to fit over the
face profile of the second member. Used where mouldings join at
90-degree angles on a wall or ceiling installation. |
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| Corner
Guard- |
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| Outside corner guard is used to
protect corners or to cover the ragged edge where wall covering and
painted surfaces meet at an outside corner. Inside corner
guard covers uneven joints or ragged lines where wallpaper, paneling
or other covering materials meet with painted or contrasting
surfaced walls at an inside corner. |
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| Cornice- |
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Exterior trim used at juncture
of outside wall and roof. Also describes interior trim used where
walls and ceiling meet (crown, cove, bed moulding). |
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| Cove- |
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| A moulding with a concave profile
used at corners, particularly as a ceiling cornice. Small
coves may be used as inside corner guard. |
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| Crown/Beds- |
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| Most often used where walls and
ceiling meet. Crown mouldings are used to cover larger
angles. Crowns are always "sprung" while beds are
either "sprung" or plain. A "sprung"
moulding has the interior corner beveled off to better fit a right
angle joint. |
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| Cut-Off
Line- |
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in the finger-jointing
process, the area where defects are cross cut away from shop lumber after
it has been ripped. |
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| Cut
Stock- |
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Small pieces of surfaced,
partially worked or rough lumber in specified sizes suitable for further
manufacture into millwork products. |
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| Cutter
Head- |
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Fitted with moulding knives,
cutter heads are installed in a moulder where they rotate at high speeds
to shape the moulding profiles. |
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