CARPENTRY

Carpentry

Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the use of wood to construct items as large as buildings and as small as desk drawers. in the UK, strictly speaking, the term is more correctly used to describe the skill involved only in 'First Fixing' of timber items and mainly covers areas such as constructing roofs, floors and timber framed buildings - i.e. those areas of construction that are normally unseen in the finished building. 'Second Fix' work - i.e. skirting boards, architraves, doors etc., is more correctly referred to as 'Joinery'. Carpentry is also used to construct the formwork into which concrete is poured during the building of ...

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carpentry

Noun

  1. The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking
  2. A carpenter's workshop.


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