Capped rate - The mortgage interest rate will not exceed a specified value during a certain period of time, but it will fluctuate up and down below that level.
Visqueen - A 4 mil or 6 mil plastic sheeting.
Three-four-five triangle - An easy, mathematical way to check whether a large angle is square. Measure three feet along one side, four feet along the other; if the corner is square, the diagonal distance between those two points will equal five feet.
Glued Laminated Beam (Glulam) - A structural beam composed of wood laminations or lams. The lams are pressure bonded with adhesives to attain a typical thickness of 1 «" . (It looks like 5 or more 2 X 4's are glued together).
King stud - The vertical "2 X's" frame lumber (left and right) of a window or door opening, and runs continuously from the bottom sole plate to the top plate.
Circuit breaker - A protective switch that automatically shuts off current in the event of a short or overload. Also see fuse, short circuit.
Class "A" - Optimum fire rating issued by Underwriter's Laboratories on roofing. The building codes in some areas require this type of roofing for fire safety.
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