{{ :lifehack:plank-for-web.png?nolink&318x313 |Logo for ONTU}}. **Introduction** \\ .\\ * This article describes a variety of boards and flat materials used for fabrication and construction of a building and furniture.\\ .\\ * This article focuses on wood materials found within the United States. \\ .\\ * Related Articles: Build a House, CNC Machines, MultiPurpose Tools, Time-saving Life Tools.\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **What Is A Board** \\ .\\ * A stout length of sawn timber. -synonyms.net\\ .\\ * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat. -wikipedia.org\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Synonyms for Board** \\ * Plank\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Kinds of Boards** \\ .\\ * Lumber\\ .\\ * Engineered wood\\ .\\ * Cutting board\\ .\\ * Sounding board, of a musical instrument\\ .\\ * Cardboard (paper product)\\ .\\ * Paperboard\\ .\\ * Corrugated fiberboard\\ .\\ * Fiberboard\\ .\\ * Particle board, also known as chipboard\\ .\\ * A reusable writing surface\\ .\\ * Foam Insulation Board\\ .\\ * PegBoard\\ .\\ * SlatBoard\\ .\\ * House Siding Panels\\ .\\ * Printed circuit board, in computing and electronics\\ .\\ * Concrete Board\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ . \\ **Typical Wood in 2x4 Boards** \\ .\\ * Pine (white, black). Fir (spruce, junipertree). Cedar\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Kinds of Engineered Wood** \\ .\\ * Engineered wood\\ .\\ * Cement board\\ .\\ * Chipboard\\ .\\ * Fiber cement siding\\ .\\ * Fiberboard\\ .\\ * Glued laminated timber\\ .\\ * Hardboard\\ .\\ * Hemacite\\ .\\ * Homasote\\ .\\ * I-joist\\ .\\ * Laminated veneer lumber\\ .\\ * Masonite\\ .\\ * Medium density overlay panel\\ .\\ * Medium-density fibreboard\\ .\\ * Multilaminar veneer\\ .\\ * Nu-Wood Decorative Millwork\\ .\\ * Oriented strand board\\ .\\ * Papercrete\\ .\\ * P cont.\\ .\\ * Parallam\\ .\\ * Particle board\\ .\\ * Perforated hardboard\\ .\\ * Plywood\\ .\\ * Pressed wood\\ .\\ * Stamina wood\\ .\\ * Waferboard\\ .\\ * Wood flour\\ .\\ * Wood-plastic composite\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Kinds of Plywood** \\ .\\ * BS 1088\\ .\\ * Duramold\\ .\\ * Laminated veneer lumber\\ .\\ * Parallam\\ .\\ * Plywood\\ .\\ * Tego film\\ .\\ * Waterproof plywood\\ .\\ * Western India Plywoods Ltd.\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Boards are Used In** \\ .\\ * House frame, house floor, tool bench, countertop, cutting board, \\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Where to Buy Boards** \\ .\\ * Hardware Store\\ .\\ * Lumbar Yard\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Other Materials Used in Fabrication (This list to be moved to Home Construction)** \\ .\\ * Wood Lumber\\ .\\ * Engineered Wood\\ .\\ * Plastics\\ .\\ * Glass\\ .\\ * Metals\\ .\\ * Foam\\ .\\ * Sprayed Foam\\ .\\ * Card Stock and stiff paper/cardboard products\\ .\\ * Rubber\\ .\\ * Nylon\\ .\\ * Fabric\\ .\\ * Cotton\\ .\\ * Paints:\\ .\\ * Stains: \\ .\\ * Sealant: \\ .\\ * Liquid Water Barrier: \\ .\\ * Adhesives: Glue, Caulk\\ .\\ * Stone: Stone Granite and granite-imitation products. Marble. \\ .\\ * Add to links section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Building_materials \\ .\\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Building_engineering \\ .\\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Construction \\ .\\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sustainable_building\\ .\\ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Building_Design_Guide\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Kinds of Composite Materials** \\ .\\ * Composite material\\ .\\ Tailored fiber placement\\ .\\ 3\\ .\\ 3D composites\\ .\\ 3T Cycling\\ .\\ A\\ .\\ Advanced composite materials (science & engineering)\\ .\\ Advanced fiber placement\\ .\\ Aggregate (composite)\\ .\\ Aluminium foam sandwich\\ .\\ Composite armour\\ .\\ Automated fiber placement\\ .\\ B\\ .\\ Basalt fiber\\ .\\ Biocomposite\\ .\\ Bulk moulding compound\\ .\\ Bungaroosh\\ .\\ C\\ .\\ Capacitance probe\\ .\\ Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer\\ .\\ CarbonCast\\ .\\ Carbotanium\\ .\\ Cement-bonded wood fiber\\ .\\ Cemesto\\ .\\ Ceramic matrix composite\\ .\\ Cermet\\ .\\ Chobham armour\\ .\\ Chop (fiberglass)\\ .\\ Composite epoxy material\\ .\\ Composite honeycomb\\ .\\ Composite laminates\\ .\\ Composite plate\\ .\\ Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures\\ .\\ Copper-clad steel\\ .\\ Creep in composite materials\\ .\\ Cure monitoring\\ .\\ D\\ .\\ Delamination\\ .\\ Dental compomer\\ .\\ Dental composite\\ .\\ Drywall\\ .\\ Duroplast\\ .\\ E\\ .\\ Ebonol (material)\\ .\\ Engineered cementitious composite\\ .\\ Engineered stone\\ .\\ Engineered wood\\ .\\ Epoxy granite\\ .\\ Etalbond\\ .\\ Eternit\\ .\\ F\\ .\\ Fermacell\\ .\\ Fiber cement siding\\ .\\ Fiber pull-out\\ .\\ F cont.\\ .\\ Fiber-reinforced composite\\ .\\ Fiber volume ratio\\ .\\ Fiber-reinforced concrete\\ .\\ Fiberglass\\ .\\ Fiberglass mesh\\ .\\ Fiberglass sheet laminating\\ .\\ Fiberglass spray lay-up process\\ .\\ Fibre cement Fibre-reinforced plastic\\ .\\ Filament winding\\ .\\ Forged composite\\ .\\ FR-2\\ .\\ G\\ .\\ Gelcoat\\ .\\ GLARE\\ .\\ Glass fiber\\ .\\ Glidcop\\ .\\ Glued laminated timber\\ .\\ Graphalloy\\ .\\ H\\ .\\ Halpin–Tsai model\\ .\\ Hemacite\\ .\\ High-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites\\ .\\ Homasote\\ .\\ Honeycomb structure\\ .\\ Hybrid material\\ .\\ Hybtonite\\ .\\ I\\ .\\ Insert (composites)\\ .\\ J\\ .\\ Jesmonite\\ .\\ K\\ .\\ Kamptulicon\\ .\\ Kirei board\\ .\\ L\\ .\\ Laminate\\ .\\ Laminate flooring\\ .\\ Laminate panel\\ .\\ Laminated veneer lumber\\ .\\ Lanxide process\\ .\\ Linoleum\\ .\\ Long fiber reinforced thermoplastic\\ .\\ M\\ .\\ Mallite\\ .\\ Medium-density fibreboard\\ .\\ Micarta\\ .\\ Micromechanics\\ .\\ Mircata\\ .\\ Mokume-gane\\ .\\ Multi-function structure\\ .\\ N\\ .\\ Novotext\\ .\\ Nu-Wood Decorative Millwork\\ .\\ O Opus albarium\\ .\\ Orangeburg pipe\\ .\\ O cont.\\ .\\ Oriented strand board\\ .\\ P Palierne equation\\ .\\ Papercrete\\ .\\ Parquetry\\ .\\ Particle board\\ .\\ Plymax\\ .\\ Plywood\\ .\\ Pre-preg\\ .\\ Prodema\\ .\\ Pultrusion\\ .\\ Pykrete\\ .\\ R\\ .\\ Reinforced carbon–carbon\\ .\\ Reinforced concrete\\ .\\ Reinforced plastic\\ .\\ Reinforced rubber\\ .\\ Reinforced solid\\ .\\ Reinforced thermoplastic pipe\\ .\\ Riverstone Pebble Tiles\\ .\\ Royalex\\ .\\ S\\ .\\ Sandwich panel\\ .\\ Sandwich plate system\\ .\\ Sandwich theory\\ .\\ Sandwich-structured composite\\ .\\ Self-drying concrete technology\\ .\\ Self-leveling concrete\\ .\\ Setralit\\ .\\ Sheet moulding compound\\ .\\ Short fiber reinforced blends\\ .\\ Soluforce\\ .\\ Spectra Shield\\ .\\ Spread tow fabric\\ .\\ Stamina wood\\ .\\ Steel fibre-reinforced shotcrete\\ .\\ Steel plate construction\\ .\\ Structural insulated panel\\ .\\ Syntactic foam\\ .\\ T\\ .\\ Tenax\\ .\\ Textile-reinforced materials\\ .\\ ThermaSAVE\\ .\\ Thermoset polymer matrices\\ .\\ Transite\\ .\\ Tufting (composites)\\ .\\ W\\ .\\ Waferboard\\ .\\ Wood-plastic composite\\ .\\ Z\\ .\\ Z-pinning\\ .\\ Zelfo\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Misc Information** \\ .\\ *\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Internet Resources** \\ .\\ * Board at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board\\ .\\ * Wikipedia Category for Engineered Wood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Engineered_wood\\ .\\ * Wikipedia Category for Composite Materials: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Composite_materials\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ **Sources Cited** \\ * Mainly Wikipedia\\ .\\ * Dictionary Websites\\ .