Sentences with phrase «a frame house»

Meanwhile, hanging out in the living room of your one - story, wood - frame house will only cut down the radiation by half, which — if you are next to a nuclear explosion — will not do much to help you.

I can't understand why anyone would live in a stick - frame house anymore.»

«To meet the R - 2000 standards with a wood - frame house requires a lot of redundancy,» he notes.

«I have seldom found a wood - frame house with pink insulation that didn't have black mould in the walls,» he says.

His family moved into a small frame house adjacent to the sixth hole at the Latrobe (Pa.) County Club, where his father was both the head pro and greenskeeper.

paid to third party inspector to look for evidence of termites, dry rot, or other wood damage; not always required but definitely strongly recommended for frame houses.

Your house washed away because that is the natural result of two fathoms of water flowing against a frame house.

He lives in Stafford, Vermont, in a rambling frame house next door to the village church.

On the evening of December 16, 30 - year - old Terry Brennan was entertaining a few friends in his modest white frame house in South Bend when the telephone rang.

The Johnson brothers owe a lot to the leadership and love abiding in a modest wood - frame house outside La Grange, the one with a tin roof and no indoor plumbing.

Frame houses made of sawn lumber took much less time and effort to build than their predecessors.

Not only do they pay the usual assortment of real estate taxes on their two - story frame houses, but they are actually double - billed for their local parks and recreation programs.

My grandfather was a finish carpent (the kind who would do fine work life framing windows as well as framing houses and made a craddle that could be lifted off the rockers to sit on the floor.

The vast monolithic apartment complexes of Kiev have disappeared, giving way to small wood frame houses in a bucolic landscape of green and brown fields.

I can see her out pegging up the heavy wet laundry on the clothesline behind that old white frame house.

Guy Godfree's elegant cinematography captures the stark, stunning beauty of Newfoundland, its moody landscapes, dry fields, quaint frame houses and deserted beaches.

Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) sets his film in a decaying mill town in Pennsylvania whose frame houses haven't been remodeled and painted since the»70s.

The land and houses acquired during this time was mostly sold to HGSE by Radcliffe College, though Westengard House, 3 Garden Street, an 1851 frame house, was purchased from the Harvard Law School; it currently houses the Harvard Family Research Project.

As the school grew, it also occupied several nineteenth - century frame houses in the area of Oxford, Prescott, and Kirkland Streets, among them Batchelder, Peabody, Spaulding, and Palfrey.

A gospel - and - blues - hued musical score provides the soundtrack for a slow - moving montage of dusty Delta sunsets, rusty river barges, ramshackle storefronts and rickety wood - frame houses lining crumbling streets.

As with the 2.0 L version, for reduced vibration and lower booming noise, the R gets a lower balancer shaft which is encased in a stiffened ladder frame housing for increased rigidity.

A uniquely - shaped polished aluminium frame houses the day - time running light and forms a unique signature light element.

After the Fox daughters heard repeated tapping in their wood - framed house, they were convinced that the ghost of a dead peddler who was murdered years ago in the house was trying to contact them.

Pulitzer Prize — winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half - dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.

This book was born on a cold, drizzly, late spring day when I clambered over the split - rail cedar fence that surrounds my pasture and made my way through wet woods to the modest frame house where Joe Rantz lay dying.

Timothy Egan follows a half - dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.

First drafts are for digging the book's foundation, second drafts for framing the house, and third drafts for finish work.

The slimmer frame houses a sharper Paperwhite display that shows a better contrast and brightness for easier reading.

paid to third party inspector to look for evidence of termites, dry rot, or other wood damage; not always required but definitely strongly recommended for frame houses.

If you live in a frame house, your premium will most likely be higher than someone who has a brick home.

If you live in an earthquake - prone area, look for a wooden frame house because it is more likely to withstand this type of disaster.

The town is a delightful mix of many coloured timber - framed houses, tightly packed along cobbled streets.

The timber framed houses are medieval, there are lively markets in the squares, and you can wander along the bank of the Dordogne River down to the historic quay.

This is a stunning architecturally designed pole framed house modelled on a New Guinean long house.

Stop in Honfleur, a romantic port city; Rennes, with its traditional, colorful timber - framed houses; Blois, a picturesque town with its renaissance castle located in the town center; and Chartres, famous for pilgrimages to its 13th - century gothic cathedral.

With its old - world feel and timber - frame houses, Traben - Trarbach is a pleasant spot for a visit, offering beautiful scenery, delightful architecture and, of course, ample opportunity to taste the region's award - winning wines.

These include the incomparable Minster, which is one of Europe's largest and most ornate Gothic cathedrals, and the Shambles, a quaint street of cobbled streets and beautiful, overhanging, timber - framed houses that has remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages.

Participants from all walks of life can join the 10 day trip this November, spending 5 days in the Kathmandu Valley assisting with construction of metal frame houses for families currently without homes.

Narrow cobbled streets and timber frame houses give Joan of Arc's city a real sense of living history.

These include the town of Goslar, an atmospheric UNESCO World Heritage site crammed full of timber - framed houses dating back to the 16th century.

The 90 - year - old Eurasian timber - framed house at the centre of the resort offers a bar, lounge and dining space to enjoy a flavour of yesteryear.

We lived in a small wood frame house off of Old Perkins on Pliny.

Old timber framed houses mingle with classical pastel coloured houses, where the pedestrianised centre is decorated with many Gothic or baroque buildings.

Llangollen offers many attractions including a motor museum, boat trips along its canal and Plas Newyd, a stunning eighteenth - century timber - framed house set in immaculate gardens.

Come and live at the heart of the authentic bocage with its horses, its apple trees and its timber framed houses!

A unique timber frame house located in the heart of Maya Civilization and surrounded by exotic jungle; the perfect get - away for couples, families, and friends seeking adventure.

One might start with a newcomer, Airplane, in a frame house on the western edge, where Andrea Burgay's light - toned abstraction and Shinya Watanabe's photographs of sunlight competed with ill - tempered robots from Tim Belknap and Peter Caine.

Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975) Connecticut Frame House, 1933, printed later.

In the future, she plans to live part time in the deteriorated pink 1940s frame house she personally purchased that adjoins the foundation property.

He and his companion of 35 years, James Tellin, a painter, live and work in a frame house beside a three - lane highway.