Sentences with phrase «at your foundation wall»

The minimum standard for grading is an inch for every foot, with at least eight feet of grade starting at your foundation wall.

Not exact matches

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

The slurry wall lies at the heart of Libeskind's «Memory Foundations» reconstruction plan.

Last week, in a break with custom, Governor Cuomo and Governor Christie did not attend the foundation's annual fund - raising dinner at Cipriani Wall Street, where the comedian Stephen Colbert was the host.

Those who held the levers of power at the U.S. Department of Education, in the big foundations, on Wall Street, and in the major corporations agreed on how to reform American education.

This weekend's Wall Street Journalinterview with the foundation's namesake about those school reform efforts once again hit upon one of the most - salient points I had made: That private - sector donations to public school districts and efforts at influencing policy won't be enough to continue the overhaul of American public education.

By making sure your eavestroughs and downspouts are clear from debris (this includes pruning back large trees or bushes) and your landscape is graded and slopes away from the house, says Dan Sandink, manager of resilient communities and research at the Institute of Catastrophic Loss Reduction, «you allow water to drain away from foundation walls,» which goes a long way to preventing a claim.

Panelized Home: Walls, floors and roof in small panel form are assembled at the site and attached to a foundation.

Look at the base of ceilings and walls in each room to see if there are apparent shifts in the foundation or other structural elements.

Walkers tear at your city \'s walls outside, while desperate Survivors rip apart the town \'s foundations from the inside.

Already, the wall text mentions another model's anonymous allegations of inappropriate sexual contact by Mr. Araki, noting that «the controversy surrounding Araki's work has almost exclusively been about reception and meaning, and far less about the issues of consent and the potential abuses of power that can be at the foundation of artistic practice and artistic production.»

«We're really bursting at the seams,» Bennett Rink, the foundation's executive director, told the Wall Street Journal.

In New Orleans decomposition has always been as inexorable as construction — the tropics love to eat away at foundations, lattices, paint on the wall.

Among others her work has been shown at the South London Gallery («Beyond these Walls») in 2009, at CCNOA of Brussels («Abstract Thought is a warm puppy») and at the Museum of Modern Art of the Ludwig foundation in Vienna («geometrisch betrachtet») in 2008, at the Galerie im Taxispalast of Innsbruck in 2006 and at AR / GE Kunstgalerie Museum of Bolzano in 2004.

Selected projects will be featured in the next installment of our ongoing Moving Walls exhibition series, opening in September 2018 at the Open Society Foundations — New York.

Visit the foundation's Weekly Wonk blog for answers from Sharon E. Burke, an international and energy security analyst, Steve LeVine of Quartz, Daniel Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University, and Russell Gold, senior energy reporter at the Wall Street Journal and author of «The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World.»

At that point, the Grip robot takes over by attaching itself to the top of the foundation layers and uses its rollers to move around the structure, adding layers for walls and drying them with a built - in heater.

This house was designed as a passive solar home by architects at Solar Northern; designers of Post And Beam Homes who eventually became Woodhouse.The house is built on styrofoam insulated foundation walls and concrete floor which serves as a thermal flywheel to hold heat from the sun in heating months before and after winter solstice and moderate summer temps in house when the sun is not shining in the house due to summer sun angles.

1 - 3 The block walls of the house were externally insulated with 300 mm KABE Therm platinum expanded polystyrene insulation, right down to the foundations, which prevents cold bridging at ground level.

Adding a small strip of insulation at the base of the foundation wall eliminates the thermal bridge.

Quinn Lite blocks were deployed at both foundation and wall plate level to deliver the necessary thermal break, while Teplo - Tie wall - ties in the cavity did the same job there.

Provisional BER: A2 (46.68 kWh / m2 / yr) Energy bills: Annual running cost for heat and hot water projected at $ 375 Thermal bridging: Quinn Lite aircrete blocks used at foundation and wallplate; Teplo - Tie wall ties; Foamglas Perinsul under steel supports; Schöck Isokorb balcony connector used for cantilevered balcony.

Infiltration: Air barrier system is as follows: existing basement slab with two coats of epoxy paint; taped rigid insulation on inside of foundation walls; spray foam at the rim joist; taped housewrap on above grade walls; fully adhered membrane on existing roof sheathing; transitions between roof and above grade walls made by lapping membrane over the housewrap; other transitions made using sealant.

Excellent insulation is provided even at the most difficult places: sills, headers, foundation walls, windows, electric outlet boxes, etc..»

As previously reported in issue 18 of Passive House Plus, the company began to apply its learnings to new build in last year's 15 unit second phase at Silken Park, itself a laudable low energy project which featured essentially the same wall build - up, but with double rather than triple - glazed windows, a strip foundation system, demand controlled ventilation and condensing gas boilers.

• Highly skilled in maintaining a clean job site by handling site preparation activities in sync with provided directions • Demonstrated expertise in setting up forms in which concrete is poured such as walkways, walls and pillars • Exceptionally well - versed in estimating concrete quantities and appropriate mixes of sand and cement • Proven record of efficiently building and erecting various concrete foundations and structures • Proficient in performing activities related to cutting and placing reinforcing wire mesh and handling rough leveling of concrete mixtures • Completely adept at handling fine finishing work by performing floating, troweling and edging duties • Documented success in putting in place standards of safety to minimize work - related accidents and occupational hazards • Deeply familiar with standard methods, materials, tools and equipment used in concrete construction and maintenance • Focused on monitoring the effects of heat, wind and cold on the curing of concrete through the entire process • Hands - on experience of applying sealants and hardening components to cure concrete surfaces and handling waterproofing duties • Qualified to operate equipment such as power vibrators to handle compact concreting duties • Track record of efficiently and accurately directing the casting of concrete to ensure conformance to leveling standards

• Demonstrated ability to follow floor plans and directions to install hardwood, vinyl and laminate floors • Demonstrated expertise in planning floor installation process in accordance to set deadlines and budget constraints • Hands - on experience in installing LVT, VCT, carpet and ceramic floors as directed by customers • Complete insight into mixing and applying required compounds to join and adhere foundation materials • Proficient in sweeping, scraping and cleaning base surfaces to correct imperfections in a bid to prepare worksites for flooring work • Adept at cutting coverings and foundation materials according to specifications laid out in blueprints and sketches • Competent at using a variety of hand and power tools by following strict safety measures • Hands - on experience in cutting, trimming and shaping materials so that they align with walls • Demonstrated ability to measure, cut and install skirting along walls or baseboards • Documented success in creating and maintaining effective working relationships with vendors and suppliers in a bid to acquire materials on time • Proven record of efficiently handle repair, remodeling and renovation work on floors, using exceptional insight of repair and maintenance work • Qualified to provide a neat finishing touch to installed floors by performing buffing and polishing duties

Miracle at footings, foundation walls and superstructure st stair / elevator tower, underpin adjoining historic neighborhood buildings Building custom build out for Sloan - Kettering Upgrade campus roads lighting drainage and parking lots Out of ground 20,000 square foot hangar FBO building & fuel farm with fuel transfer station * Site work included taxiway with 18» of P401B asphalt runway lighting roads site lighting drainage...

Think about your office building or your home, built on a solid foundation with beams and walls, it won't collapse at the first sign of a crack.

We weren't able to call in the inspection for the wall forms last night because the computers were down, but our foundation guy knows the inspector and called in a favor this morning — the inspector says he'll do the inspection at some point today.

Stone walls, raised beds, low foundation plantings and lush shrubs create a sense of enclosure at the entry of the house.