| Cautionary Notice!
Paint used on woodwork up until the 1960's and until later on
metalwork(red lead or red oxide) often contained lead which is now considered
harmful. Appropiate care must be taken when sanding and stripping off old
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Glossary of Decorating
terms and Painters jargon.
Registered and Trade Mark names are shown in
green.
C
Calcium Plumbate. A primer
for galvanized metals.
Capstan. Undiluted paint used straight from the container.
Casing wheel. A small wheel
on a handle used to cut lining papers especially.
Caulk. (pronounced cork)
Flexible filler in tubes.
Ceiling Texture. Usually known as artex in the UK. A
textured finish with a wide variety of patterns.
China-wood oil. A drying medium. Also called Tung oil
or wood-oil.
Cill. A mis-spelling of window 'sill' in widespread
use in the construction industry.
Cladding. Boarding, usually horizontal, on the outside
of a building.
Colourwashing. A technique of coating wood with
a water-based paint and then removing most of the paint with a
cloth thereby exposing the grain. Also used on walls to give a semi-opaque
finish.
Comb. Toothed tool
used mainly for wood graining.
Cornice. Moulded coving
round the edge of a ceiling.
Coving.
Ready made cornice generally fixed with adhesive.
e.g.Gibroc Coving
Cowboy. Rough and unqualified
worker.
Creosote. A wood preservative
for exterior fencing etc.
Crossline. Fixing strips
of lining paper horizontally.
Crown. Large paint and wallpaper supplier.
Crown Berger Limited.
D
Dado. The lower part of
a wall decorated differently.
Dado rail. The wooden or
plaster moulding designating the top edge of the dado.
Découpage.
Decorating a surface using delicate paper cut-outs and lacquer.
Die Form Doors. Moulded
skin wood fibre doors for internal use only. Now the most common interior
door in new housing.
Distressing. Treating surfaces so they look old and worn,
especially wood.
Dormer. A protruding window
on the slope of a roof.
Drop. A length of wallpaper
cut to wall height ready for pasting.
Dulux. Large paint and
decorative products supplier. ICI Paints
Division.
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