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A substance that pollutes the surface being preped

Contaminant

The roughness of a surface which helps a covering to adhere

Key

Coshh

The control of substances hazardous to health regs

First fix timber

Door and window frames, flooring, stud partitions, staircases

Second fix timber

Kitchen units, skirting, architraves, mouldings,

Decorative timber

Furniture, bannisters, high quality joinery

Deciduous trees

Slow growing, hardwood

Coniferous

Fast growing softwood

Properties of timber

Tactility, porosity, aesthetics, insulation, hardness, strength, flexibility

How much pressure a metal can take without breaking

Malliability

How much a metal can be stretched permanently without damage e.g. when making wiringl

Ductility

The max strength of a metal

Tensile strength

Millscale or scale

A bluish black layer of metal oxides that occurs during production of metal sheets.

Happens when 2 different metals come into contact with an electrolyte such as water causing corrosion to one of the metals

Galvanic action

Cathodic protection

A way of stopping a metal corroding by using another metal to attract the corrosion.

Gypsum

A naturally occurring white chalky rock used in plaster and plasterboard

A process that creates a type of soap that attacks painted surfaces.

Saponification

Prep of upvc

Decrease, thin coat of oil based product to help adhesion, spirit based undercoat, coat of gloss

Priming

The very first coat onto a bare surface

Stopper

Like fillers bit stiffer

Back filling

Used on deep holes or gaps in layers

Wetting in

Wetting scored wallpaper to loosen it

A flexible acrylic filler

Caulk

Date for lead in paint

Pre 1980

Dealing with contaminated solvents

Send them for controlled disposal

Adding detergent to water for wetting in

Breaks surface tension, helps water penetration

Purpose of soaking wallpaper to assist stripping

To soften the adhesive paste

Filler for grain filling coarse grained timber

Fine surface filler

Lowest flash point

Acetone

Saponification

Alkaili attack on oleo resinous coating

Best tool for denibbing ceiling

Pole sander

Best way to reduce risk when prepping surfaces

Produce a method ststement from a risk assessment

Best way to clean off liquid paint remover residue from soft wood

Abrasive fibre pad and soapy water

Paint surfaces which have cracking should be

Completely stripped

A primer for resinous woods

Aluminium primer

Primer for soft and hard wood

White primer

Primer for soft wood

Pink primer

Blooming

Gloss loses its sheen due to drying in cold

Flash point

The temp at which something turns to vapour which could ignite

Emery paper

For metal, could lube with oil

Wire wool

For finishing timber

Aluminium oxide

Stays sharp, long lasting, cheap

Name for wet n dry

Silicone carbide,

Name for oil based paint

Oleo resin

Zinc phosphate primer

For bare metal, rust inhibiting

Primer for bare metal

Zinc phosphate

Kippers

Knot, prime, stop

Surfactant leaching

Water soluble ingredients on the durface of latex paint eg in high humidity. Sugar soap, seal with shellac based sealer, repaint.

Efflorescence

Water releases lime in bricks as a white powder

Sugar soap from bottom to top

Bottom up

Why prime brfore filling

Primes nail heads,

Which side of plaster should be skimmed ivory or brown

Ivory

Commom/fletton bricks should not be painted, why

Cos of their salt content

Engineering bricks should not be painted, why

Cos of their non porous surface

Which bricks will accept paint

Rustic sand faced bricks