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Gauged Arch:Work of the highest quality; an arch built with soft red bricks known as Rubbers. These bricks are m...
Gauged Work:See Decorative Work....
Gauged Work:The most skilled work of the craft. The bricks, known as Rubbers, are made oversize from a clay with...
Gauging TrowelStandard trowel for the application of bedding mortar or adhesive to tile backs....
Geometric TilingTile shapes of more than one colour and several sizes laid to form a pattern. See also Tessellated....
GiraffeThe giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest living ter...
Glass Block Work:See Bricks and Materials....
Glass BlocksThese vary in size, and thickness, with a range of surfaces and colour tints. May be used internally...
Glass MosaicSquare or rectangular material cast from molten glass, face mounted on paper or backed onto nylon me...
GlazeA ceramic coating in a glassy state or the material from which this coating is made....
Glazed BrickThese bricks, now obsolete, were classified into three groups: enamelled; sprayed, and salt glazed. ...
Glazed FireclayA single fired material, with waterproof properties based on vitrification....
Glazed Terra CottaA material similar to faience but single fired....
Gothic Arch:Also known as a two-centre arch. It is best described as the inclination of two segmental arches, fr...
GroutUsually cement based, often tinted and formulated with varying sized fine aggregates to suit a wide ...
Grout RakeA metal hand tool with tungsten embedded in the blade for the removal of set grout from a narrow joi...
Gun:Made from two short lengths of 50 x 25 batten that is half jointed to form an obtuse angle (gun like...
GutterCan be internal / external to carry water being discharged from roof slope...
Gutter.Rain water channel fixed to fascia at eaves level to collect rain water discharging from roof slope ...
Hammers3 types - Slate hammer, Tile hammer, Lath hammer,...