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Basic Concepts and Principles in Simple Home Repairs

Improvements

- It aims to enhance an existing structure or fixture for practical and aesthetic purposes.

Repairs

- Are simple replacements of worn-out parts/components or reinforcements of certain things to

make them more functional ad lengthen their usability

Home Repair Tools

Cutting Tools

- These are tools that cut such as wood and metal saw and utility knife/cutter.

Driving Tools

- These are tools that thrust, push, and manipulate like a hammer, screwdriver, and nail set

Holding Tools

- These are tools that grip, clench, grasp, clutch, and clasp

Measuring and Marking Tools

- These are tools USE FOR ACCURACY AND PRECISION.

Miscellaneous Tools

- These are tools like plunger, putty knives, plumber’s snake, oilstone used for sharpening other
tools.

Masonry Job

- It is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by a mortar

Mortar

- It is a mixture of quicklime/cement combined with sand and water

Types of Bricks

Building Bricks

- It is also called common brick that is made from ordinary clay or shale and is fired in kilns. These
Bricks have n special shoring, markings, surface texture, or color

Dressed Bricks

- These are made bay pressing clay into individual molds at a very high pressure. This method is
called dry-press
 Glazed Bricks

- These are bricks with ceramic coating

Fire Bricks

- These are blocks of refractory ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and
fireplaces

Sand Lime Bricks

- Decorative brick made of sand and lime pressed in an atmosphere of steam

Types of Masonry

Veneer Masonry

- It is used for decorative purposes. This type if masonry uses numerous pieces that are bitted
around another structure

Solid Masonry

- It is known as the good old-fashioned brick construction

Brick Masonry

- It is the most popular type and is perfect for any kind of wall. It is durable and can withstand
strong earthquakes.

Plumbing Job

- The word “plumbing” comes from the Latin word “plumbum” which means lead
- It is the system of pipes, drains. Fittings, vavles, valve assemblies, and devices installed in a
building for distribution of water for drinking, heating and washing.

Pipes

- A hollow Cylinder used mainly to convey substances which can flow

Pipe Fittings

- Fitting is used in pipe plumbing systems to connect straight pipe or tubing sections, to adapt to
different sizes or shape, and for other purposed, such as regulating or measuring fluid flow.

Faucet

- It is a point of installation system where flow of water or gas could be manipulated

Types of Faucet

Compression Faucet

- It is also considered as the oldest type of faucet. It has double handles one for cold and one for
hot
Ball Faucet

- This type is very common in kitchen sinks and were the first type that does not have a rubber or
neoprene washer.

Cartridge Faucet

- This type may come in single or double handle types. You can operate this faucet by pushing the
stem cartridge up and down to adjust water volume and moving it left and right to adjust
temperature

Disc Faucet

- It is the latest development in modern faucet technology. I has a wide cartridge housing two
ceramic discs that side over each other to control water flow and mixing temperature.

Electrical Job

- It is defined as something related to electricity, which is energy resulting from charged particles.

Electrician

- It is a person who installs, operates, maintains, or repairs electric devices or electrical wiring.

Hazard

- any potential or actual threat to the wellbeing of people, machinery or environment

- It means taking precautions to identify and control electrical hazards

Carpentry Job

- It is a trade that can be gratifying for it involves repair and creation of tangible objects.

Carpenter

- They are responsible in constructing, repairing, and installing building frameworks and
structures made from wood and other materials.
- To produce good carpentry jobs, you must develop the right skills, use appropriate tools, and
execute correct processes

Hand Tools

- is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor.

Power Tools

- Is any tools that is powered by an engine/motor.

Upholstery

- It is used mostly for pieces of furniture intended for seating or resting the body.

Varnishing

- It is a popular finishing for almost all types of wood.