What’s on the Keeping Water Out poster
A 5-row table: Force · Defence.
Water needs an opening, a force and a reason. Remove any one.
- Gravity — Lap, fall, and overhang
- Capillary action — A cavity or an air gap
- Surface tension — A drip groove or throat
- Wind pressure — Pressure equalised cavity
- Momentum, driving rain — Baffle or labyrinth joint
A sealant bead is a maintenance item with a service life, not a permanent barrier. Never rely on it as the only line.
Questions about the Keeping Water Out poster
- What’s on the Keeping Water Out poster?
- A 5-row table: Force · Defence. Water needs an opening, a force and a reason. Remove any one. Gravity — Lap, fall, and overhang; Capillary action — A cavity or an air gap; Surface tension — A drip groove or throat; Wind pressure — Pressure equalised cavity; Momentum, driving rain — Baffle or labyrinth joint. A sealant bead is a maintenance item with a service life, not a permanent barrier. Never rely on it as the only line.
- Who is the Keeping Water Out poster for?
- Keeping Water Out belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning construction technology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Keeping Water Out poster?
- Use it to interrogate any detail. Ask which of the four you have not answered. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Keeping Water Out belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Keeping Water Out?
- The Envelope, The Cavity Wall and Cladding Systems sit alongside Keeping Water Out in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The EnvelopeThe Cavity WallCladding Systems
- Is the Keeping Water Out poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Keeping Water Out downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Keeping Water Out poster print at?
- Keeping Water Out is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Keeping Water Out loses nothing.Printing guide
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