Name of trim piece?

[Robert Jones]

What is the technical name for this "trim" piece that runs on both sides of the home? Built 1910.

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[Chad Fabry]

Water table.

[Robert Jones]

I thought you were busting balls a bit. It really is a water table! Thanks Chad.

[Jim Baird]

It looks new and it lacks slope or flashing. I just call it a band...

[kurt]

I think the term comes out of old masonry structures. The limestone trim piece running along grade is called a water table.

Or, has it always been an interchangeable name/feature?

[kurt]

Piggyback post.....

What's the right name for this limestone cornice feature?

It's got an inlaid gutter in it, and it's all ****ed up. I figure I should call it my the right name if I'm going to can it.

It's sort of like an entablature, because there are columns, sort of. But, it's not a conventional entablature.

Name that piece....

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[AHI in AR]

If water table sounds wrong to you it can be called a drip cap and (most) people will understand.

[John Kogel]

Robert, I call it the flashing at the lower edge of the siding. Or the flashing above the foundation. Although you did ask for the technical term.

And aren't you supposed to check that for slope with a marble? Just kidding. []

[Steven Hockstein]

Drip sill is another name for the cap over the transition between the siding and foundation.

[Jim Katen]

Piggyback post.....

What's the right name for this limestone cornice feature?

It's got an inlaid gutter in it, and it's all ****ed up. I figure I should call it my the right name if I'm going to can it.

It's sort of like an entablature, because there are columns, sort of. But, it's not a conventional entablature.

Name that piece....

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I'd call it a cornice.

[ghentjr]

Or an Eave.

[Chad Fabry]

I'd call it a cornice too. The faux columns support the implied entablature, The architrave and the frieze are missing but the cyma recta and cyma reversa profiles are there as are mutules of sorts.

[kurt]

I thought mutules were those little square blocks on the underside of the ledge/cornice.

[Chad Fabry]

I thought mutules were those little square blocks on the underside of the ledge/cornice.

Yeah, they look like Legos. That's why I said "of sorts".

[ghentjr]

I guess you can use either word, it's a matter of interpretation.

cor?nice noun \#712;k#559;r-n#601;s, -nish: the decorative top edge of a building or column

: a decorative strip of wood or some other material used at the top of the walls in a room

Full Definition of CORNICE

1

a : the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition ? see column illustration

b : a top course that crowns a wall

2

: a decorative band of metal or wood used to conceal curtain fixtures

3

: an overhanging mass of windblown snow or ice usually on a ridge

See cornice defined for English-language learners ?

See cornice defined for kids ?

eave noun \#712;#275;v1

: the lower border of a roof that overhangs the wall ?usually used in plural

2

: a projecting edge (as of a hill) ?usually used in plural