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Back Bands--A rabbeted
moulding used to surround the outside edge of casing.
Base Caps--A decorative member
installed flush against the wall and the top of an S4S
baseboard. Also used as a versatile panel moulding.
Base Mouldings--Applied where
the floor and walls meet, forming a visual foundation.
Protects walls from kicks, bumps, furniture, etc. Base may be
referred to as one, two, or three member base. Shoe and base
cap are used to conceal uneven floor and wall junctures as
well as hide the ½” expansion joint which should be left
around the entire perimeter of the wood floor (flooring should
not be installed so that it butts against the walls).
Base Shoes--Applied where the
base moulding meets the floor. Protects the base from damage.
Also conceals uneven lines or cracks where the base meets the
floor.
Battens--A symmetrical pattern
used to conceal the line where two parallel boards or panels
meet.
Beds--Used where walls and
ceiling meet. Either sprung or plain.
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Casing--Used to trim inside
and outside door and window openings.
Chair Rails--Interior moulding
applied about one-third up from the floor, parallel to base
moulding and encircling the room. Originally used to prevent
chairs from marring walls, today they are used as a key
decorative detail in traditional and colonial designs.
Chamfer Strip--Used in highway
and dam construction forms making a chamfered edge at concrete
corners. Also used where kitchen cabinet tops meet the wall.
Also used as a linoleum cove, under linoleum where it extends
up the wall.
Corner Guards--An outside
corner guard is used to protect corners or to cover ragged
edges where wall covering and painted surfaces meet at an
outside corner.
Coves--Used at corners,
specifically as a ceiling cornice. Small coves may be used as
an inside corner guard. Concave profile.
Crowns--Used where walls and
ceiling meet. Also used to cover large angles. Always sprung.
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Flat Stools--A moulded
interior trim, rabbeted or bevel-rabbeted that receives the
window frame sill. Non-rabbeted stools include a tongue to fit
in the groove of the window frame sill.
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Half Rounds--May be used as a
screen moulding or bead shelf edge or panel moulding.
Handrail--Used as a support in
a stairwell.
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Inside Corner--Used to join
two walls at an inside corner. Solves problems of uneven
joints where butted panels, wallpapered, painted or other
contrasting surfaces meet. Gives corners a decorative finished
look.
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Panel Moulding--Originally
used to trim out raised panel wall construction. Now often
used to frame attractive wall coverings for a paneled effect.
Panel Strips/Mullion Casings--A
strip that is applied over window jamb edges in a multiple
opening window. Sometimes called a panel strip.
Picture Moulding--Used to
support hooks for picture hanging. Applied around a room’s
circumference near the ceiling line.
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Quarter Rounds--May be used as
a base shoe. Inside corner moulding or to cover a 90 degree
recessed juncture.
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Rabbet--A cut or groove along
or near the edge of a piece of wood that allows another piece
to fit into it to form a joint. The notch is at a right angle
cut.
Rabbeted Stools--A moulded
interior trim serving as a window frame sill cap.
Rounds--Used as closet poles
or room dividers.
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Shelf Cleat--Commonly used in
closets, cabinets and bookcases to support the shelves. Also
called shelf strip.
Shelf Edge--Covers particle or
flakeboard shelf edges.
Shingles--Used on the rake of
a building or around exterior window frames.
Squares--Used in cabinets,
framing for shelves and as balusters or spindles for
supporting stair handrails.
Stops--In door trim, a stop is
nailed to the faces of the doorframe to prevent the door from
swinging through. As window trim, a stop holds the bottom sash
of a double-hung window in place. Also used as an apron under
window stools.
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T-Astragals--A T-shaped
astragal that is rabbeted to the same thickness of a swinging
door.
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Wainscot/Ply cap--Trims out
the upper edge or top of a Wainscot. Covers the rough sandwich
edge of plywood in installation where it’s exposed to view.
Also called a Dado cap.
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