House Construction Materials List : With Images & Uses

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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.