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Split
Split may refer to many different things on a jobsite. It may refer to a split jamb but
more often it refers to a defect in wood. When the grain of the wood lets go and is
pulled apart or breaks apart, then you probably have a split. It must run along the grain
though, or else you have a break, not a split.
A split often results in splinters, and is easy to spot because it looks very much like a tear in the wood. Most often,
a split comes from driving nails either too close to the end of a piece of timber, or from driving too many nails into
the same grain. The nail acts like a wedge and just pushes the wood fibers apart.
Another use for the term split is as shorthand to describe a sort of home construction known as a split level. This
design for a house has several floors that are tied together by small sets of stairs. It gets its name from the way the
floors appear with relation to each other. It almost looks as though the house had been split at some point, and one
part of it was pushed upward. The design helps to break up the floor plan somewhat, and helps to reclaim space that
might otherwise be taken up by stairways.
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