Atrowel is a smallhand tool used for digging, applying, smoothing, or moving small amounts of viscous or particulate material. Common varieties include themasonry trowel, garden trowel, and float trowel.
Apower trowel is a much larger gasoline or electrically powered walk-behind device with rotating paddles used to finish concrete floors.
Garden trowelCeremonial bricklayer's trowel used in laying one of the foundation stones of the commencement column of the Federal Capital city ofCanberra in 1913Pointing trowel used in an archaeological excavation
Numerous forms of trowel are used inmasonry,concrete, anddrywall construction, as well as applying adhesives such as those used in tiling and laying synthetic flooring.Masonry trowels are traditionally made offorgedcarbon steel, but some newer versions are made of caststainless steel, which has longer wear and is rust-free. These include:
Bricklayer's trowel has an elongated triangular-shaped flat metal blade, used bymasons for leveling, spreading, and shapingcement,plaster, andmortar.
Pointing trowel, a scaled-down version of a bricklayer's trowel, for small jobs and repair work.
Tuck pointing trowel is long and thin, designed for packing mortar between bricks.
Float trowel orfinishing trowel is usually rectangular, used to smooth, level, or texture the top layer of hardening concrete. Aflooring trowel has one rectangular end and one pointed end, made to fit corners. Agrout float is used for applying and workinggrout into gaps in floor and wall tile.
Gauging trowel has a rounded tip, used to mix measured proportions of the different ingredients for quick setplaster.
Pool trowel is a flat-bladed tool with rounded ends used to apply coatings to concrete, especially onswimming pool decks.
Margin trowel is a small rectangular bladed tool used to move, apply, and smooth small amounts of masonry or adhesive material.
Construction worker using a float trowel to smooth freshly poured concreteFinishing trowel fordrywalling
Notched trowel is a rectangular shaped tool with regularly spaced notches along one or more sides used to apply adhesive when adhering tile, or laying synthetic floor surfaces.
Other forms of trowel include:
Garden trowel, a hand tool with a pointed, scoop-shaped metalblade and wooden, metal, or plastic handle. It is comparable to aspade orshovel, but is generally much smaller, being designed for use with one hand. It is used for breaking up earth, digging small holes, especially forplanting andweeding, mixing infertilizer or other additives, and transferring plants topots.
Camping trowel, a hand tool used in the outdoors to securely stake and prop up a tent, channel a small stream of water, level a sleeping surface, dig a cathole for no traces of waste and do many more outdoor survival chores. Camping trowels can sometimes be made of lighter weight materials than gardening trowels to make them easier to carry in a backpack or they can be made of heavier materials for chopping kindling or shoveling soil without having to awkwardly reach or bend over. Camping trowels may incorporate a secondary side ruler to measure ground surface depth; however, the ruler might prematurely become defaced from course soil particulates. Camping trowels sometimes have a front tip and side features, such as a pointed tip and a serrated side edge to easily cut through tree roots or frozen soil. These serrated camping trowels may include a cover guard to protect the user from cut wounds as well as save backpacks from puncture holes and tears. They may also fold-up for added protection and easy storage. Few others allow for items such as toilet paper to be stored upon or inside the handle.[1][2]
Inarchaeology brick or pointing trowels (usually 4" or 5" steel trowels) are used to scratch the strata in anexcavation and allow the colors of the soil to be clear, so that the different strata can be identified, processed and excavated. In theUnited States, there are several preferred brands of pointing trowels, including theMarshalltown trowel; while in theBritish Isles theWHS 4" pointing trowel is the traditional tool.
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