| Decorated Tile | Usually applied to glazed tiles and can refer to hand painting, slip outline or screen printing.... | |
| Decorative Bonds: | Used to add interest, and create a pleasing appearance, to external or internal walls; there is need... | |
| Dentils: | Also known as Dentilation. The projection (say 30mm) of alternate Headers, in the same course, to pr... | |
| Diamond Drilling | Mechanical process increasingly used to form holes in fully vitrified tiles.... | |
| Diaper Pattern: | Large plain areas of walling can be decorated by using blue-flared or vitrified headers to produce p... | |
| Dispersion Adhesives | Pre-mixed product, also referred to as 'ready-mix' containing polymer, organic binders and additives... | |
| Dog-Tooth: | Similar to a Dentil Course but each Header is laid at 45 degs. to expose one corner in a continuous ... | |
| Dogleg Brick | Can be used when forming external, or internal, obtuse angles to maintain correct face bond without ... | |
| Dormer | A vertical protrusion through the roof slope normally a type of window.... | |
| Dressings: | Decorative external brickwork that uses superior bricks, and workmanship, to surround a door or wind... | |
| Dumpy Level | An optical instrument used to establish or verify points in the same horizontal plane as part of the... | |
| Dust Pressed Tile | A tile whose body has been formed in a mould or die under heavy hydraulic pressure from refined clay... | |
| Dutch Gable: | A gable with a parapet when the outline is shaped first with a large convex curve followed by an equ... | |
| Eaves | The lower edge of an inclined roof slope.... | |
| Eaves Sprocket (Bellcast) | A form of construction used at eaves by which short lengths of timber are fixed to the sides of raft... | |
| Efflorescence | A powdery white deposit that forms on the surface of new brickwork or tiling. This results from the ... | |
| Elevator slope | which lifts tiles up to roof level, can be extended onto roof.... | |
| Encaustic Tiles | Porous ceramic tiles decorated with in-laid coloured clays before firing but also used to describe s... | |
| Engineering Brick | Used, in the main, for work that is considered to be Civil Engineering but also used in buildings wh... | |
