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Chair rail or dado rail: Horizontal moulding placed part way up a wall to protect the surface from chair-backs, and used simply as decoration Chamfer : Beveled edge between two adjacent surfaces Chin-beak : Concave quarter-round moulding, rare in ancient buildings, more common today.
A dado rail, also known as a chair rail or surbase, [1] is a type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a room. The dado rail is traditionally part of the dado or wainscot and, although the purpose of the dado is mainly aesthetic, the dado rail may provide the wall with protection from furniture and other contact.
A chair screw (also known as coach screw [16]) is a large (~6 in or 152 mm length, slightly under 1 in or 25 mm diameter) metal screw used to fix a chair (for bullhead rail), baseplate (for flat bottom rail) or to directly fasten a rail. Chair screws are screwed into a hole bored in the sleeper. [17]
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In architecture, the dado is the lower part of a wall, [1] below the dado rail and above the skirting board. The word is borrowed from Italian meaning "dice" or "cube", [2] and refers to "die", an architectural term for the middle section of a pedestal or plinth. [3]
Frame and panel construction at its most basic consists of five members: the panel and the four members which make up the frame. The vertical members of the frame are called stiles while the horizontal members are known as rails. A basic frame and panel item consists of a top rail, a bottom rail, two stiles, and a panel.