Ebanista – a person who builds doors or cabinets
Empotrable – built in
Enchape – a stone facade
Esacaleras – stairs
Escalera de caracol – spiral staircase
Espejo – mirror
Fachada – façade
Fontanería – pluming
Formaleta – a wooden frame used for filling spaces with concrete
Fragua – grout
Fraguar – to grout
Fregadero – kitchen sink
Frente – front of a house or property
Fuente – fountain
Grado de inclinación- slope
Grifería – faucets
Gypsum or tablaroca– sheet rock
Hierro forjado – wrought iron
Iluminación – lighting
Jacuzzi – Jacuzzi
Jardinera – flower bed
Ladrillo – brick
Lastre or grava – gravel
Lavamanos – bathroom sink
Línea blanca – kitchen appliances like a refrigerator
Loza sanitaria – bathroom fixtures like the tub and toilette
Llave de paso – Any type shut off valve for plumbing. Metal or PVC for water, gas, air pressure

Tiquismos of the week:

Caer como San Juan al 24: something happening on a very opportune time (San Juan´s festivities in Costa Rica are on June 24th)
Cambiar la mama por un burro: to make a bad deal
Colgarle el guecho: a gullible person
Como cuando usted era pobre: I´m fine, just like when you used to be poor!

Tico humor and wordplay for advanced students (this may be tough to understand):

Cacareo is the sound a rooster makes or bragging. In this case it is excrement of a prisoner.