Parging

Quick meaning: Parging is a noun meaning (construction) A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls; a parge.

Meaning

(construction) A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls; a parge.

More Meanings

1. (construction, loosely) Pargeting.
2. present participle and gerund of parge.

Example Sentences

Use of plastic roofing cements, acrylic coatings, latex coatings, mortars and pargings to seal ICF [insulating concrete form] walls is permitted.

Although all of the mortar pargings were crazed, the effects of weathering were most apparent in the top pargings and in the top courses of the walls.

Concrete to receive hot-applied dampproofing will not need a coat of parging unless the wall is honeycombed, pockmarked, or otherwise too rough for the dampproofing to properly cover.

If you burn wood on its own, the flue gases are cooler than from a coal fire. This can result in tars condensing out within the parging and brickwork of the flue, sometimes causing brown or yellow staining on upstairs chimney breasts.

Word Forms

• pargings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pargeting, parget, pugging, ruderation, daubing, pavior.

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