Sentences with phrase «gable ends»

The battling gangs of the Depression years have been replaced by equally boastful but less warlike mobs of youths, whose principal outlet appears to be scrawling their challenging slogans on the walls of public lavatories or on the sooty gable ends of tenements.

In addition Appeal also have a ClearView pleated blind for gable end windows, which provide an attractive and functional solution to cover large unusually shaped areas of glass.

Its iconic shape and playful red color is carried from the eastern exterior red gable, through to the interior kitchen wall, to the living space, and back outside to the opposite western exterior gable end.

Figure 2: Gable End Detail — Overhang cut and then rebuilt to hide the thickness of the over-roofing rigid insulation.

We are building a 1700 sqft high post cape with a 10/12 pitch roof, gable end facing front, big corner boards, big overhangs and birds nest returns.

Anne of Green Gables ended up having a big effect on the eldest too.

There are angled pieces in the gable end to still cut and fit, and we have to deal with making an opening and building and hanging a sliding door for it on the east end, but now that we have built one, it should not be challenging.

Opposite, Yinka Shonibare has designed a fabric to cover the gable end of a 40m - tall Peckham tower block.

Rather oddly, one of these houses is shown to have a drainpipe that, instead of running directly down the side of the structure, cuts diagonally across its gable end.

Galvanized aluminum and corrugated metal — durable and economical materials — are used to finish WaterShed's gable ends, north roof, and various components within the site, including the wetlands and desiccant regenerator, also adding to the «shed» aesthetic.

Why not just cut the original rafters flush with the wall as well and do the box beam thing on the front similar to what was done on the gable ends?

On the gable ends this was pretty easy.

Notice the increase in overhang dimension on the gable ends.

The overhangs on the gable ends were cut off, rigid insulation added to the top (Photograph 6) and then the overhangs rebuilt as box beams (Photograph 7).

The attic had windows at the gable ends but the attic was unfinished.

Then the box beams were trimmed out (Photograph 8) and a double frieze board installed to hide the increase in roof thickness without requiring redoing the gable end siding (Photograph 9).

I had always imagined a large window at the gable end with its big red handle as the only legal way to satisfy the size requirements for egress (thinking park model standards here).

An investigation by the HSE found that the Asbestos Insulation Board soffits surrounding the underside of the guttering around the front, gable end and back of the property had been dismantled in an unsafe manner, creating the serious risk of respiratory exposure to asbestos fibres to the two workers and the residents of the property.

Its drawback is that it is a narrow lot, and the house was built with the gable end toward the road,» Fooks says.

The characterful post and beam - style oak - frame extension by specialists Welsh Oak Frame features a gable end of stunning double - height glazing to flood the room with natural light.

«The reason that we promote murals is to brighten up drab and dark areas in the city, gable ends and also to deal with graffiti hot spots,» she explains.

The house features a harled exterior and is built to an L - shape with gable ends.

Appeal offer a unique solution for shading the gable ends of conservatories, glazed rooms, extensions and barn conversions.