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Face
The wide surface of a piece of lumber; the wide surface showing the better quality or appearance from which a piece is graded.

Factory Lumber
Lumber intended to be cut up for use in further manufacture: it is graded on the basis of the percentage of the area which will produce a limited number of cuttings of a specified, or a given minimum, size and quality.

Fall-Down
Lumber not up to a particular grade.

Fiberglass Insulation
Commonly used blanket or batting type of insulation in the construction industry. This is the preferred type of insulation to be used between the window or door frame and the rough opening.

Field Measurement Guide
A form that is filled out prior to ordering the Clad Magnum Double Hung Replacement System with Panning to ensure the correct sized unit is assembled at the factory.

Finger Joint
A series of fingers machined into the ends of two pieces of lumber to be joined together. They are then held firmly in position by adhesive. Finger jointed wood is very strong and has a lesser chance of warping than does a clear piece of wood the same length.

Finish (window or door)
Term used to describe the exterior wood or clad finish applied to a window or door product (i.e. bare wood, primed or clad).

Finish (lumber)
A term indicating the higher grades of lumber, sound, relatively free of blemishes.

Flanker
A former term used to describe a side or lateral part. Also previously used to describe a 3-wide picture unit or bay. See two-wide entry.

Flat Casing
Flat, surfaced on four sides, pieces of pine of various widths and thicknesses for trimming door and window openings. The casing serves as the boundary moulding for siding material and also helps to form a rabbet for screens and/or storm sash or combination doors. Also available as a clad version.

Flat Grain (F.G.) Slash Grain (S.G.)
Lumber sawn approximately parallel to the annual growth rings so that all or some of the rings form an angle of less than 45 degrees with the surface of the piece.

Fluroropolymer
A resin enhanced with ceramic pigmentation used as a coating on Marvin aluminum clad products. See Kynar

Foam Backer Rod
A compressible foam used with the mull reinforcement components to act as a thermal break and an insulator. Also used in applications to serve as a bridging material to form a proper seal joint.

Footbolt
A locking rod device installed vertically in the stile or astragal of a door or screen which when activated secures the panel or screen in a stationary position.

Frame
The stationary portion of a window or door that encloses either the glass (direct glaze) or the sash or panel (operating or stationary) and consists of the following parts:
  • Head Jamb - The top frame member.
  • Sill - The bottom frame member.
  • Sub-sill - The supplemental member used under most wood awning and casement units as an additional sill with the primary purpose being to hold multiple units together at the sill.
  • Side Jamb - Side or vertical frame members.
  • Jamb Extension - The addition onto the standard jamb to adapt a window unitto deeper wall thicknesses, in most cases will be factory applied unless specified otherwise.
  • Brick Mould or Flat Casing - The exterior trim member applied to the side jambs and head jamb on wood or clad units. Often used to secure the window to the wall opening.
  • Blind Stop - The frame member on a double hung window located between the jambs and the casing. The blind stop forms a rabbet that supports either a storm sash or screen.
Frame Expander
A flat aluminum extrusion used in conjunction with various other extrusion accessories to adapt a standard size clad unit to a special size opening.

Framing Lumber
A term generally applied to lumber when the nominal size is 2 through 4 inches thick and 2 inches and wider; lumber used to construct a building or structure.

Free of Heart Center (FOHC)
Lumber sawn to exclude the heart center or pith of the log.

French Casemaster
A Casemaster styled unit with two hinged sash in one frame providing a sense of openness unrestricted by a vertical mullion or stiles when both sash are open.

French Door
Marvin French Doors are available in either inswinging or outswinging rectangular or arch top style choices. They can be glazed 1 - lite, ADL or SDL. Available stationary or operating in various hinging configurations.

Friction Limiter
A device used on a Magnum Titt-Turn to provide friction to the sash when in the swing position.
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