Sentences with phrase «layer of concrete»

I have ugly green tile in my bathroom and it's in perfect shape and would be extremely expensive to pull down (old house, thick layer of concrete and chicken wire behind the tile)- do you think if I caulked in the grout lines I could wallpaper straight over the tile?

Starting in early July, she was painting on - site, and it adds another layer of concrete personal history.

The chamber is 30 centimetres thick and made of metal covered by a layer of concrete laced with boron to absorb the neutrons.

«In order to be structurally sound, plants have to lay down their secondary cell walls very quickly once the plant has stopped growing, like a layer of concrete with rebar,» says UBC botanist Lacey Samuels, one of the senior authors on the paper.

Another shelter, another layer of concrete, another Iron Dome battery, and in all this protectiveness we are steadily losing our collective mind.

«My old house was only made of mud and stone, but this house has layers of concrete reinforcements built in,» she said.

The new generator is built from two layers of concrete tanks, which are installed in water about 30 metres deep.

As these walls were being constructed, millions and millions of invisible cosmic particles called muons descended into the earth's atmosphere and penetrated metres deep, through layers of concrete, soil and rock.

It is multiple thin layers of concrete feathered over Wood, Plastic, Metal or whatever material you have underneath.

As a result the actor Toback loved working with is gone: «That Downey is either dead or in the parking lot under three layers of concrete and cars.

After wrestling with several layers of concrete for the countertops and placing white washed faux brick paneling over our existing tile, I'm absolutely thrilled with how they both turned out.

Not exact matches

There's an ice cream parlor within walking distance that serves a frozen custard concrete called the «Bing Crosberry» with vanilla frozen custard layered with fresh berry sauce and chunks of cheesecake.

Because that filling layer would be a monolithic slab of concrete, «it will be plenty strong,» he says.

Keep it green Lush, layered landscapes with shade trees, flowers and shrubs at various heights should take up roughly 70 percent of the space; concrete walkways and plazas about 30 percent.

Layers of asphalt, concrete, brick and metal add up to fewer places for the insects to nest.

The data heist resembles a more concrete version of Inception's dream thievery, and it is just one of many layers in play between the two fundamentally different worlds.

The construction layers of a pitch, track or court are normally retained around the perimeter by a pre-cast concrete kerb.

Miles and miles of waking on concrete covered by a thin layer of carpeting.

Through defining emergent networks and layered instructions, he has defined a unique area of visual experience that builds upon concrete art, conceptual art, experimental animation, and drawing.

The accumulation of packed snow in the concrete's seams made opaque grids, grids that were again defined by planes of less dense, more transparent layers of snow that covered the higher surfaces.

Johan Hagaman constructs her base out of metal and wire, then she layers concrete to build up the three - dimensional form.

Fowler creates elaborate assemblage paintings through intuitive layering of found objects and unconventional materials that illustrate imagined and concrete narratives from his personal experience.

The layered - paper medium, small scale, and hard - edge - painting approach of her collages contrast with the subject matter, lending a concrete physicality, an almost gem - like quality, to scenes that otherwise feel fleeting.

Born out of an interest in the timbral and acoustic possibilities of harmonics, these pieces combine extended techniques for cello and viola with concrete sound, producing a shimmering mass of layered harmonics and ghostly resonances.

He cast all the real teeth, including his own wisdom teeth, in bronze and spread them out in layers, which he set between four 500 - pound blocks of concrete stacked in a modernist - style monolith.

He went on to state the question posed to the day's panel, which asked «whether skeuomorphism is good design, allowing users to relate to a concrete but outmoded object with which they're familiar or whether this is a nostalgic, superfluous layer that obfuscates the inner workings of the digital.»

Arching back to beat poetry, they layer moments of sound and concrete poetry with political and religious indictments, individual musings, art references, and cover versions of well - remembered pop songs.»

Through a kinetic juxtaposition of materials including a cymbal and piece of concrete David Beattie explores the physicality of sound and how we experience it in our everyday, while Dennis McNulty's research for a commission in Norway has led to a layered, performative multi-component work that takes 1930s science writing and a 1980s pop song by a-ha to join ideas of universal time.

A plank covered with thick layers of plaster leans against a wall (Virginia Overton's Untitled, 2014); cement bags without wrapping, cast in concrete, are stacked on top of each other (Charles Harlan's Concrete, 2014); a long yellow cable hangs aimlessly from the ceiling (Michael E. Smith's Untitledconcrete, are stacked on top of each other (Charles Harlan's Concrete, 2014); a long yellow cable hangs aimlessly from the ceiling (Michael E. Smith's UntitledConcrete, 2014); a long yellow cable hangs aimlessly from the ceiling (Michael E. Smith's Untitled, 2014).

It is light gray, the color of the architect's signature cast - in - place concrete, and its complex interiors, marked by carefully layered spaces and subtle plays of height and volume, belie the boxlike simplicity of its silhouette.

For those of you who saw Kuri's exhibition at the South London Gallery at the end of last year, you will recognise sculptural forms combining panes of glass, concrete and plywood layered and set upright on wooden pallets, creating index and diagram - like assemblages, offering a counterpoint to the cheeky works upstairs.

In another hall, Samara Scott presents her thick layered works, which she builds by using «a slow digestion of cosmetic, edible and checmical cultural debris» — a powerful mix between the concrete and the superficial, the disposable.

In conjunction with his recent solo exhibition at the Charlotte Street gallery in London, Ross Bonfanti's concrete and soft toy sculpture introduce another contrasting texture, the rawness of which complements the richly - layered paintings of Scottish artist Alasdair Wallace and the collage winter scenes of Dione Verulam, crafted from antique book - binding papers and old lithographs.

Rail: Well maybe we can get into the additional layer of meaning in your work by talking about the concrete sculpture.

Becoming Imperceptible is the largest solo presentation of the artist's work to date and it features works that layer aesthetic and cultural movements such as Minimalism, Dada, concrete poetry, and Black Lives Matter.

Encasing collections of diverse fabricated and natural objects in accumulating layers of paint - branches, chunks of concrete, frames, flower pots, or salvaged remnants of wood - these piles are systematically subjected to this over time until their function is ultimately sacrificed for solely formal concerns.

The endless layering has been a consistent feature of my work over the last decade, but in the sculptures the process of burying found and collected objects in concrete has given the palimpsest a material anchor.

Hand - crafted stainless - steel dome set with a thin layer of black concrete infused with the sparkle of diamond dust.

By allowing painterly gestures to coexist with thin, poured layers in a wide range of colors in all manner of hues and saturations, Mason is able to amplify her colors — which are infused with forms that derive from both memory and free association with concrete surroundings in nature — while embracing their complex tonalities.

If you have to put your compost bin on concrete, tarmac or patio slabs ensure there's a layer of paper and twigs or existing compost on the bottom.

If you must place your bin on concrete, remember to add a thin layer of soil to get it started.

Neopor graphite EPS forms the inner and outer layers of the ICF walls, with concrete then poured in between

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1 As work progresses on the foundations, a plate compactor is used to ensure a solid, stable base for the concrete slab; 2 pouring the concrete slab; 3 a cross-section of the wall build - up showing wet dash finish followed inside by external insulation, 215 mm solid block walls, sand - cement plaster and insulated plasterboard internally; 4 airtightness detailing around joist ends; 5 pro clima Intello airtightness system under counter battens to create a service void while minimising airtight layer damage by service penetrations; 6 a parge coat serves as the airtight layer on the inner face of the single leaf block walls.

This construction uses 2 layers of 2» foil - faced polyisocynaurate insulation against the concrete foundation and a 2x6 framed wall with R - 19 unfaced fiberglass insulation in the stud space.

Photograph 3: Concrete Placement — Shows concrete being placed on the top of the sheet polyethylene and a layer of XPS insConcrete Placement — Shows concrete being placed on the top of the sheet polyethylene and a layer of XPS insconcrete being placed on the top of the sheet polyethylene and a layer of XPS insulation.

Roof: Roadstone black concrete roof tiles, on 50X35mm battens, followed underneath by breathable Pro Clima Solitex underlay, attic trusses as designed by Shannonside Engineering fully fitted with 100 Knauf Ecose insulation, fitted between joists with another 150 mm criss crossed over, with a final layer of 100 mm crossed over.

(Clockwise from left) Rockwool's REDArt Silicone external insulation system being fitted to the concrete block walls; installation of the windows flush with the external insulation layer; the exterior walls are clad with the BrickShield system to create a real brick finish.

The Geo 6 is fed by 600 meters of 40 mm horizontal collectors — half buried in a field, half buried in tight coils strategically located in the garden — about 180m in two layers under the rainwater soakaway, and then 60m vertically coiled surrounding the concrete septic tank.

1 The Rochestown House flats prior to the refurbishment; 2 aerated concrete blocks were chosen to form new build elements, including a new third storey that allows for more generous apartment sizes; 3 new triple - glazed windows were installed outside the masonry layer so that the external insulation could wrap around them, and help prevent thermal bridging; 4 the airtightness layer was moved to the outside of the structure by taping the joints of the existing concrete panels, then extending that tape up onto the aerated blocks in the new floor; 5 Aerobord platinum EPS external insulation being fitted to the original concrete panel walls; 6 & 7 the new window frames visible here in the external insulation layer, including Rockwool fire breaks; 8 openings for exhaust and supply intakes for the new Zehnder heat recovery ventilation system, seen here prior to being insulated and airtightened; 9 installation of the Bauder bitumen roofing membrane.