Joe_Carrick Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 The Door and Window Dialogs in Chief have a "Lintel" panel. This is not the correct name - it should be called "Architrave". A Lintel is a Structural Beam above an opening - may also be called a "Header" in wood frame construction. An Architrave is the Decorative Cap - originally at the top of a Column but the term has been extended to cover openings as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneDavis Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 I agree. Now let's talk about rakes and modillions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 1 minute ago, GeneDavis said: I agree. Now let's talk about rakes and modillions. ....and entablatures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted December 22, 2016 Author Share Posted December 22, 2016 OK, check this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenoeightspot Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Should be called "Head casing" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted December 22, 2016 Author Share Posted December 22, 2016 1 minute ago, Kenoeightspot said: Should be called "Head casing" Bill, Are you a "Head Case"? Yes, "Head Casing" is used sometimes today - but it's not the most common meaning. "Head Casing" is used much more commonly as the CAP of a Well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenoeightspot Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 That would be " Casing head" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DRAWZILLA Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Hell, let the framers figure it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 6 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said: OK, check this: uh, duh my clients and I use the term all the time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGWhite Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Thanks for the info Joe. The devil is in the details. I seat down with my clients and try to bring them up to speed on how important details are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted December 23, 2016 Author Share Posted December 23, 2016 FWIW, I went back and looked at my Graphic Standards and Time-Saver Standards. I did not find any instance of the term "Head Casing". Apparently, this is terminology is akin to the word "ain't" - a construct by those who didn't know the correct name that has become common even though it's inaccurate. It would be really interesting to know at what point in time it first appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Here's a few more terms you can wow your buddies with at the Architects Golf Tournament. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/design-dictionary-do-you-know-these-25-obscure-architecture-terms-223463 http://www.archdaily.com/775615/150-weird-words-that-only-architects-use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenoeightspot Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Joe, I heard the term "Head Casing" in the early seventies. I am also a contractor so I might have heard the term in the field. Below are two more website references and photos from four books I have that uses the term. Two are from Graphic Standards. http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=52358&sid=fe14d9c4aec9661c1b79c2ed59155505 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 Bill, My Graphic Standards is the 5th Edition - (1956) So I would guess the use of the term originated in the field sometime after 1960. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly_K Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 18 hours ago, Kenoeightspot said: Joe, I heard the term "Head Casing" in the early seventies. I am also a contractor so I might have heard the term in the field. Below are two more website references and photos from four books I have that uses the term. Two are from Graphic Standards. You had to say early seventies to date me. Head casing, and Cross head was how I learned to term it from the old timers training me then. If I mitered it was head casing, if I returned the trim on itself it was a cross head. I too have been bothered by the term lentil to substitute the above, because I perceive it to be structural not decorative. I have been quasi-colloquial in how I describe items in plan, for example, when I point to a furr-down I spell it 'fir-down'; because one, locally we pretty much use just doug-fir to frame with. Second I lose a letter and therefore shortens the text field. I have since seen it spelled back to me in the same fashion. I suppose it is these types of simplifies that become part of the local dialect. Hence, head casing or casing head becomes lintel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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