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Here are some commonly used materials in house construction, along with their respective uses and images:
House Construction Materials List
Name | Image | Use |
1. Cement | ![]() | ✔ Concrete, an essential material for all types of construction, uses a binder to hold its components together. |
2. Sand | ![]() | ✔ Used to give bulk, strength, and other properties to construction materials like asphalt and Concrete. It is also a significant component of rendering. |
3. Steel | ![]() | ✔ Used in the manufacture of windows, railings, etc. |
4. Bitumen | ![]() | ✔ Used in road construction, roofing, damp proofing, waterproofing, and other similar applications. |
5. Concrete | ![]() | ✔ Used for constructing foundations, roads, bridges, walls, etc. |
6. Structural steel | ![]() | ✔ Used for the construction of steel structures. |
7. Binding Wires | ![]() | ✔ Used for tying applications in the field of construction. |
8. Fly Ash | ![]() | ✔ Used to enhance the strength, segregation, and pumpability of concrete. |
9. Aggregate | ![]() | ✔ Used in construction to provide drainage, fill voids, protect pipes, and provide hard surfaces. |
10. Bricks | ![]() | ✔ Used as a structural as well as a non-structural to make walls. |
11. Blocks | ![]() | ✔ Used for various purposes, such as building load-bearing walls, retaining walls, partitions, and foundations. |
12. Timber | ![]() | ✔ Used in doors, windows, cabinets, cupboards, shelves, tables, railings, etc. |
13. Nails | ![]() | ✔ Most commonly used to fasten pieces of wood together. |
14. Lime | ![]() | ✔ Used for soil stabilization in roads, earthen dams, airfields, and building foundations. It is also used in lime plaster preparation. |
15. Paint | ![]() | ✔ Protect buildings and structures from water and sun damage. |
16. Bamboo | ![]() | ✔ Used to construct bamboo buildings as well as used for scaffolding and other several decoration purposes. |
17. Pipes | ![]() | ✔ Used for water supply system. |
18. Glass | ![]() | ✔ Used as insulation material, structural component, and external glazing material. |
19. Tiles | ![]() | ✔ Used to cover surfaces like roofs, floors, and walls. |
20. Marble | ![]() | ✔ Used principally in buildings and monuments, interior decoration, sculpture, tabletops, etc. |
21. Mud | ![]() | ✔ Used to coat, seal, or adhere to materials. |
22. Metal Sheet | ![]() | ✔ Used in exterior or interior home decor and roofing material. |
23. Tar | ![]() | ✔ Used in road works. |
24. Chipboard | ![]() | ✔ Used for floor decking, shelving, and general building work. |
25. Water | ![]() | ✔ Used in the preparation of mortar and Concrete and for curing work. |
26. Rope | ![]() | ✔ Used for dragging and lifting. |
27. Stone | ![]() | ✔ Stones are commonly used to pave roads, footpaths, and open spaces around buildings. They are also used as a roofing material. |
28. Green Cement | ![]() | ✔ Used as a binder in Concrete. |
29. Soil | ![]() | ✔ Used for making bricks, Cement, etc. |
30. Granite | ![]() | ✔ Used in buildings, bridges, paving, monuments, and other exterior projects. |
31. Primer | ![]() | ✔ It is used to improve paint adhesion and durability, especially on UPVC surfaces. |
32. Straw | ![]() | ✔ Straw is a versatile byproduct of agriculture used in roofing, insulation, flooring, and more. |
33. Asphalt | ![]() | ✔ Used in the construction of flexible pavement and driveways. |
34. Iron | ![]() | ✔ Used in making fencing walls, structural parts of buildings, windows, etc. |
35. White Cement | ![]() | ✔ Used for fixing marble tiles and sheathing walls, floors, and roofs. |
36. Aluminum | ![]() | ✔ Used in external facades, roofs, walls, windows, and doors. |
37. Rubber | ![]() | ✔ Used in the construction of Joints, seals, and gaskets. |
38. Alloy | ![]() | ✔ Used in stainless steel pipelines. |
39. Gypsum Board | ![]() | ✔ Used as a finish for walls and ceilings. ✔ Also used as a heat insulator. |
40. Gypsum | ![]() | ✔ Used for plastering. |
41. Ceramics | ![]() | ✔ Used in tiling and other decorative purposes. |
42. Carbon Fiber | ![]() | ✔ It is used as reinforcement, but it is light, highly durable & strong compared to support. |
43. Copper | ![]() | ✔ Used in the construction industry to form pipes and tubing for potable water distribution and heating and cooling systems. |
44. Foam | ![]() | ✔ Used for its lightweight, durable properties in sealing and thermal insulation applications. |
45. Fabric | ![]() | ✔ Provide access between the inside and the outside of the building. |
46. Surkhi | ![]() | ✔ Used for decorative purposes to give traditional looks. |
47. Liquid waterproofing gel | ![]() | ✔ Liquid waterproofing products are specifically used for making Concrete or mortar waterproof. |
48. Hempcrete | ![]() | ✔ Used for walls and roofs. |
49. Planks | ![]() | ✔ Used as temporary platforms on supported scaffolds |
50. Steel plate | ![]() | ✔ Used in roofing. |
51. Plastic Bottles | ![]() | ✔ Used for preparing walls and boundary walls. |
52. Sanitary and fittings | ![]() | ✔ Sanitary fittings ensure hygienic sealing of pipelines. |
53. Wire | ![]() | ✔ Used for lifting high loads with the aid of construction vehicles. |
54. Solvent | ![]() | ✔ Used in many construction products, such as paints, thinners, and glues. |
55. Thinner | ![]() | ✔ Used to dissolve paint and reduce the viscosity of the paint. |
56. Cow dunk | ![]() | ✔ Used as a binding material. |
57. Clay | ![]() | ✔ Used in the preparation of bricks. |
58. Bleaching Powder | ![]() | ✔ Used for disinfecting drinking water supply to make it potable. |
59. Concrete admixture | ![]() | ✔ Used to improve the behavior of Concrete under a variety of conditions. |
60. Plastic | ![]() | ✔ Used as a roof as well as a ventilator ( light). |
61. Gravel | ![]() | ✔ Used for road construction, mixing with asphalt, and as construction fill. |