GLOSSARY FOR WOOD BASED PANEL PRODUCTS (The text contains more common panel terms.)
AIS - Abbreviation for asphalt impregnated Glulam - Short for glued laminated beam. These sheathing. A fibreboard product used for exterior are made of several layers of “lumber” glued wall sheathing. It contains asphalt mixed into the together in layers to form one structural piece. fibres to assist in improving weatherability. Interior Type - Moisture resistant glue is used to Butt Joint - The joint formed when two panels make this plywood, rather than 100% exterior meet but do not overlap. glue. Interior type also permits lower grade veneers. Chamfer - The flat surface left when cutting off the square edge of a panel or lumber. Lumber Core - The inner part of a wood veneered product that has lumber strips rather Cleaned and Sized - A light surface mechanical than more plywood veneers. process that removes material form the surface to provide an even surface and a panel of Non-certified - Plywood not certified by an uniform thickness. accepted agency as meeting the appropriate standards. Non-certified plywood is not accepted Composite - Made up of several items. by building codes and some other organizations. Panels may bear the mark of the manufacturer, Core - In a 3-ply panel, the innermost part but this is not a substitute for an accepted contained between the surfaces. In 5-ply, the certifying agency grade stamp. innermost ply contained between the cross bands. O & ES - Abbreviation for oiled and edge sealed, a process done to plywood concrete Crossband - The core veneers at right angles to form panels. the face. Oriented Strand Board - A structural wood Delamination - Veneer plies or OSB and panel made from reconstituted wood strands 3 1 waferboard wafers coming apart. approximately /8"x2 /2" which have mechanically been lined up to face approximately the same DlYer - Abbreviation for do-it-yourselfer. direction. Commonly a person not a carpenter, but who will personally install the building products he or Overlaid - Plywood with factory applied she buys. surface(s) of resin treated fibre, aluminum, or other non-wood veneer product. Embossed - Surface treatment where heat and pressure are applied to give a surface the look Perforated Hardboard - Hardboard with a and texture desired. regular pattern of holes. Exterior Type - Plywood made with 100% Performance Rated Panels - Panels designed waterproof glue and containing limited veneer to perform to certain specified end uses. The grades. All Canadian plywood manufactured for other choice would be panels rated by their construction use is exterior type. appearance.
Fibreboard - Wood products made by Plywood - A panel made from wood veneers chemically breaking wood down to basic laid in 3 or more layers, usually with each layer components and then adding water and at right angles to adjoining layers. chemicals to remake it. Hardboard and AIS are two examples. Reconstituted - To remake by adding water and possibly other chemicals. GLOSSARY FOR WOOD BASED PANEL PRODUCTS (cont.)
Touch-Sanded Panels - A light surface sanding process that removes material form the surface Sanded Panels - Factory sanded for use where to provide a smooth surface and a panel of appearance and/or smoothness is important. uniform thickness.
Sandwich Panel - Layered construction with Underlayment - Panels applied over plywood as the outer surfaces and the inner subflooring, or as the only panel in a single-floor core being a low strength product such as system. Care must be taken to use panels beadboard, corrugated cardboard, etc. appropriate for the final floor.
Solid Core - The inner plywood cores are free Veneer - A thin sheet of wood, placed in layers of gaps. to make plywood.
Span Rating - A rating on structural panels that Waferboard - A panel made from wafers identifies the permissible distances between approximately 3" square, bonded with resins supports. under heat and pressure.
Stressed-Skin Panel - Panels glued to framing Wood Based Panel Products - Panels, usually members making an engineered structural panel 4'x8', but larger and smaller, that have been for use as roof or floor panels. Together the professionally designed to perform to certain products have greater strength than if alone. standards. These panels are made from wood that is peeled from a log, or chopped up, or Structural Particleboard - Panels made of wood chemically broken down and remade. small wood particles about sawdust size and slightly larger, arranged in layers according to particle size.
HOW TO SELL WOOD BASED PANEL PRODUCTS
Panel products are more “commodity” items sell” the appropriate items that may go with a than impulse or “attractive” items. They are “panel” purchase. You can do that with usually a hidden part of the finished product. Yet confidence after asking questions so you know it is important that the customer takes home the what they are doing. right product for the job. A customer who can tell you have knowledge of Basically your selling to the DIYer will be raw the basic items, such as lumber and plywood or use of product knowledge. Ask enough other panel products that go in a project, is likely questions so you can recommend the proper to trust you to advise them on the rest of the panel. Of course you will want to “suggestion project also.