Sentences with phrase «cement block house»

I lived in Florida in a cement block house for a number of years.

Not exact matches

The stove rests upon the same brickwork pattern of dark cement blocks as the house.

This sense in his work of the tangible, a coming together of his first job painting houses and his implacably wall - like landscapes, lasted throughout Bogart's lifetime, through to the overwhelming presence of his celebrated late paintings, glowing blocks constructed, quite literally, out of great globs of pigment mixed with cement.

Located at the southeast entrance to Central Park, Open House stands just eight blocks from the original mansion and transforms Doris C. Freedman Plaza into a ballroom, featuring cast cement sculptural interpretations of the interior's opulent furniture.

This entails a danger of replacing constructive models perfectly adapted to the climate, constructive, economic and social reality, for housing models based on concrete blocks, steel sheets or fiber cement.

(Turbo blocks and Marmox structural insulation below DPC) Sand - cement render internally throughout extension and house with gypsum skim (to maximise access to thermal mass).

On the first full day of legislative business, House Republicans introduced measures on Wednesday to block the environmental agency's proposed regulation of greenhouse gases and new rules limiting toxic air emissions from cement factories.

As always, one project leads to the next, so as long as we had a contractor available with the machines and tools to rip out the driveway (conveniently, our contractor is also building a house next door so the home improvement bug is definitely spreading far and wide), it was a good time to rip out the crazy cement blocks in our side yard, too.

When the Borisches first bought their home, it was little more than a charming Popsicle stand: The house lacked insulation and drywall, as well as forced heating and cooling, and it rested precariously on cement blocks and wood stumps.