Sentences with phrase «of the lumber used»

Costs are rising quickly in part because of the strained relationship between the U.S. and trade partners like Canada, which supplies much of the lumber used by developers.

The big factor in keeping costs down for this project is which type of lumber you use.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration in recent weeks applied tariffs to imports of Canadian lumber, agreed to investigate charges that Bombardier is using government subsidies to sell its new plane at unfair prices, and triggered the legislative process that will lead to a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

While the country doesn't use much lumber to build houses — most of China's residential buildings are made from concrete — they still ravenously consume the commodity.

Canada has not always won disputes using that tool, the argument goes, and if a good deal on softwood lumber can be struck quickly, outside of NAFTA, maybe Canada could rely on the World Trade Organization mechanism and domestic courts to do the referring.

Earlier this year Quebec introduced a wood charter, which doesn't force but strongly encourages the use of lumber as the chief material in provincial projects.

But now it turns out much of the $ 1 billion the Canadian negotiators relinquished to the United States has been used to reward the American lumber industry and other friends of President George Bush's administration.

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

The Koch brothers» Georgia - Pacific subsidiary, maker of Dixie cups, Angel Soft toilet paper, lumber and cardboard packaging, is a limited liability corporation that would be allowed to use the lower rate.

The Trump administration has already made noises about wanting to get rid of NAFTA's dispute - settlement regime, which Canada has used successfully to fend off previous U.S. attacks on its lumber.

I use to buy a ton of lumber (over 2 million boardfeet a year) for a millwork company and our better always sent us 4/4 at 1 1/6» net thickness.

We cut a total of 48 pieces and used all of the lumber we bought.

One of my favorite quotes is by Craig Venter «My favorite toys were hammers, nails, saws, and scavenged lumber that I used for building forts, airplanes, and boats - although you had to use your imagination to what they were on completion.»

Specifically, the team used a modified jigsaw - rigged Roomba to cut lumber of any shape on a plank.

The genet might be using this rhino as a movable hunting blind, waiting for mice or insects to run out of the way of the big lumbering beast and then pouncing on them from above.

Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

So, for a cost of all of $ 2 I grabbed a 6 foot 1 × 4 at my local lumber yard after work and completed all of the trim using my air compressor and brad nailer.

We used a 1» x 8» piece of plain pine lumber (that we distressed and stained dark walnut), to create a «slipcover» on top of -LSB-...]

Stake the lumber into the ground using a rubber mallet or hammer, then secure each of the wreaths to the lumber using a drill and exterior screws.

Lumbering, sullen and anything but horrific, Maggie's bizarre use of zombies as the centerpiece of a family drama is akin to having The Terminator anchor a romantic comedy.

Zac Efron tries to make use of his new - found comedy style, but Dirty Grandpa is no Bad Neighbours, lumbering him with the straight character who only gets to show off his joke - telling abilities on choice occasions.

All the action is in terms of the carpentry work, and there is a sequence in a lumber yard that uses sound and timing to make sudden physical disaster seem imminent.

Your point of grip will be a little lower than usual but it's easy to get used to, and the rate at which inputs translate into movement soon makes conventional setups feel large and lumbering.

In addition, lumber traders can receive other benefits such as use of a company car and merit - based bonuses.

All of Odie & Board's products are created in their Minneapolis workshop, many of them using lumber handpicked from Minneapolis lumber mills.

You can make a simple DIY shelter using a plastic storage bin or styrofoam cooler, dry straw (for cold winter weather), and lumber or bricks to lift the shelter up off of moisture.

Mangroves provide firewood, charcoal, lumber and a source of tannin, the natural chemical used in tanning leather, not Only to modern man, but, in the past, also to the Maya.

When these mangroves reach sufficient height (as they do on the southern part of Ambergris Caye) they are used for masts in sailing boats and as lumber for construction.

Interestingly, the entire low - lying area often referred to as Hout Bay was where early Dutch settlers depended on to get their lumber (using slaves of course), since little rainfall fell on the other side of the mountains where they had settled.

FFG have been using systems like this for a while in their space combat games and in that setting it makes a tad more sense that something like a massive Imperial Stardestroyer could go lumbering straight past an enemy ship that moved out of the way.

Varl, as you might imagine, are lumbering hulks that do lots of damage but aren't necessarily the most nimble nor defensive - minded fighters, while humans can use a greater variety of weapons, like bows, spears, and small axes.

Using materials such as lumber, drywall, insulation and plywood, Diiorio assembled partition - like structures only to cut them open and lay the parts on the floor or lean them against the gallery's actual walls, emptying his objects of functional purpose.

Ms. Comte also used 23 six - meter tree trunks to render the name of the installation in lumber, a monumental creation set atop an artificial hill overlooking the carnival games.

In lieu of canvas for 2015's Untitled (Lake Conway) the artist uses manufactured lumber aggressively bolted to the wall rather than hung upon it.

As the site - specific installation, entitled Matchstick Men, Stiller used thick pieces of lumber to make the sculptures look more like real matchsticks.

Because of its rigidity and resistance to bending, you can use 48 percent less of it than conventional lumber.

There was a lot of plywood and lumber that used to be houses and probably most of it was wasted.

Another interesting feature is the use of cross-laminated lumber walls, solid walls made from wood killed by the pine beetle.

Logging has a purpose — the production of lumber, which is used in building — which does NOT return carbon to the system.

If an areas is logged and the wood used for lumber to build housing, for example, that wood / carbon is out of the cycle for many years (unless the house burns).

A far greater variety of materials can be used in conventional construction: rock, adobe, used wood, doors and windows, construction grade lumber, etc..

I built «Arm's Reach» using standard lumber from the local yard, the windows were all recycled (my favorite was the side windows on either side of the downstairs southern window.)

The Soviets, with the help of powerful icebreakers, managed to use the route a number of times after 1932, primarily to transport lumber and pelts.

Our new development shows the environmental impact of delivering one cubic meter of kiln dried sawn lumber of the selected American hardwood species and thickness to the overseas customer using the specified transport route.

Woodworkers Source offers excellent recommendations for which grades of lumber are appropriate for which uses

Use new lumber for framing — these are the bones of your house and they need to be impeccably strong.

Swedish manufacturer MetsaWood says «Kerto is laminated veneer lumber (LVL) product used in all types of construction.

Coming in at a snug 196 square feet, the Atlas is powered by solar, collects rainwater, and instead of the ubiquitous dimensional lumber, it's one of the few tiny houses we've seen that uses steel framing throughout to lighten its overall weight, while conferring a strong, underlying structure.

It used to be that 40 million acres of longleaf pines once covered the South; by the 1930s it was all lost to lumber.

Wood construction sequesters carbon, uses a renewable resource, eats up some of that pine beetle infested lumber that will rot if we don't put it to work, and just looks so beautiful.