Sentences with phrase «on a concrete slab»

The small batch microclimate way is to dry coffee beans while sitting on concrete slab or patio; raking over them in full sunlight with accelerated rake use at night to prevent the beans from over fermenting.

We took the back way there, running through fallow cornfields on the two - lane roads of America and then hammered home on the concrete slabs of Interstate 94.

Visitors can stand on the concrete slab adjacent to the light for expansive vistas of the tide pools, rocks, and crashing waves below.

and the date it was painted — two years after the Cuban revolutionary was killed in Bolivia, where the photograph of his corpse on a concrete slab in the laundry room was made to available to the press — suggest that the painting is both a memorial and an attempt (signaled by the exclamation point) to resurrect him or, at least, his spirit.

First of all, it was built on a concrete slab with radiant heat built right in.

In July, the builder gave a party on a concrete slab at its under - construction tower at 520 Park Ave., inviting brokers in hard hats to sample the view from the 29th floor of the skeletal building, where prices start at $ 16.2 million.

If you are installing on a concrete slab that is level and in good shape less than if you have an old uneven subfloor and have to lay concrete board down first.

But here in Texas most of our homes are on concrete slabs, without basements.

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When we gather back together, the prayers on the tape are taken and embedded in a concrete slab that is made then and there.

I drove with Joe to see Hawk on a cold, wet Saturday afternoon and was shocked by what I saw: a beautiful brindled beast exiled to a concrete - slab kennel, living in and slipping in and falling in a scabrous landscape of his own feces.

But a mattress that tilts too far in the other direction can feel like a concrete slab to a back sleeper — this puts too much pressure on your back and shoulders, so you wake up with aches in the a.m..

At Pioneer Park, the concrete slab with «GRILL» stenciled in blue and white letters is set up near picnic tables on the Fernandez Avenue side of the park, near the pools.

The senator, along with representatives from city agencies and the offices of other elected officials, gathered on Rutgers Street (near Madison Street) to watch as the final slabs of concrete were poured.

The installation of precast concrete slabs near the bridge's Westchester landing will now require an overnight closure of the northbound New York State Thruway (I - 87 / I - 287) exit 9 (Tarrytown — Sleepy Hollow — US Route 9) on - ramp from Route 119 tonight.

And this spring, the final slab of concrete was laid on a new five - and - a-half-mile boardwalk, with Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaiming its completion a symbol of the area's resiliency.

Railway systems are designed for a 50 - year lifespan, which is calculated on the integrity of the materials used, and most railways are built along one of two common track systems: rails set on railway ties (U.S.A.) or sleepers (UK), which are then «ballasted» into beds of rock or gravel; or rails that are set onto concrete slabs.

At the Vienna University of Technology, a completely new construction method has been developed, which does not require any timber structures at all: a flat concrete slab hardens on the ground, and then an air cushion below the plate is inflated, bending the concrete and quickly forming a sustainable shell.

The concrete walls, columns, footings, slab on grade, slabs on metal deck, and podium deck utilize 30 percent fly ash, which contributes to the LEED credits in the category of Recycled Content.

They will probably complain that the Renegade's short wheelbase and minimal overhangs lead it to hop a little bit across the seams between the concrete slabs on the freeway.

Park on the terra - cotta - colored concrete slab and follow it to a series of gentle steps, leading you past a pair of brick walls that guide you to the front door.

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When the car fell into the hole, another slab of concrete came down on the back - end of the car like a guillotine, severing the rear from the rest of the body.

«Some treadmills are like running on a slab of concrete, some like running through a fluffy field,» says Schwarz.

It rests on a concrete barge — the floating equivalent of a crawl - space or concrete slab foundation that can be found under rural or mid-century land - built homes.

For instance, if your dog prefers to eliminate on concrete and you want her to go on grass instead, place a temporary slab of concrete in the area where you want to teach her to go.

Once the concrete is well covered and your dog is still eliminating on it, remove the concrete slab.

It has grass sites and concrete annexe slabs, a salt - water swimming pool, barbecue area and small kiosk are located on - site for all basic needs.

The park offers powered and drive through sites with concrete slabs, modern amenities, permanent and tourist sites and on - site vans.

The dimly lit, dungeon - like room is nearly empty, except for a pair of rusted and broken mechanical objects on a raised concrete slab.

In several of the works on display, the hardened concrete slab is brutally beaten, broken in order to create a new form.

For his 2015 Sunroom Project, Situations, Specifics, Attenuation, Otitigbe Eto used photographs he took of plants in Wave Hill's Marco Polo Stufano Conservatory, converting light and dark into a pattern that he engraved digitally on concrete and aluminum slabs, using a computer - controlled router.

Page used materials specific to the site of the gallery — dirty pillows from discarded sofas collected on neighboring streets, and square slabs of sidewalk concrete.

The slab of concrete with a spray - painted pink X on it, is named Listening to the Men Talk Sometimes Made Her Feel More Alone Than if She Were a Mile Away by Herself Under a Tree, delicately referring to subjective experiences of gender differences.

The bridge floor framing system consists of a finished architectural topping slab over a structural concrete slab on a composite metal deck spanning between steel beams.

Utilising food products to build earthy textures on stealth slabs of concrete and steel, unconventional beautiful can be found in these abstract landscape paintings.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

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.

However, this Amazon tiny house option avoids most of that work by being a prefabricated option that ships fully - finished, and although it still requires either concrete footers or a slab to sit on, it's ready for the sewer, water, and electricity connections («plug and play») once that's complete.

Sole plate screwed to concrete slab and outer leaf blockwork on DPC.

Ground floor: Ground bearing slab of 150 mm thick reinforced concrete on 1200 gaugepolythene Radon membrane, on 200 mm Celotex GA4000 (Lambda value of 0.022 W / mK), on sand blinded and compacted hardcore.

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.

Ground floor: 225 mm concrete slab on 125 mm Xtratherm XT - UF insulation on 1200 gauge DPM.

200 mm concrete structural slab, 22 mm particle board on baby joists as floor finish.

Concrete upper floors are typically hollowcore; precast slabs are craned into place on top of blockwork, but because Whiriskey wanted an open plan layout downstairs, that approach would have involved large amounts of structural steel in the slabs, which in turn would have had a major impact on cost.

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Key features include: - Optimized building envelope design provides rain screen, high R - value, and air sealing - High efficiency Daikin Altherma electric heat pump to provide 100 % of heating and cooling - ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) provides fresh air and exhausts interior stale air 24/7 - LED lights throughout the home - Energy Star rated appliances - American made high efficiency windows (U-value = 1.9)- Standing seam metal roof with high recycled content, durability, and longevity - Radiant concrete floor slab in basement - Dual flush toilets throughout - Cabinetry with no added urea formaldehyde and low VOC content - Countertops made from recycled Quartz and glass - Zero VOC paints used on all interior walls and ceilings - Zero VOC clear finish on wood floors - Marmoleum flooring (a linseed oil based product) in mud room and bathrooms

R24 - SIPS panel construction, Solar thermal hot water, radiant flooring heating in slab on grade concrete floor with Buderus 96 % efficient boiler, Pella energy efficient windows, passive cooling, glass block interior «windows»

«On each of the four corners of the house, while the concrete was still wet, we installed «L» shaped metal rods that curved down under the slab.

This will decrease demands on the building's air conditioning system, allowing cooling to be achieved using a chilled concrete slab floor.

Overall U-value: 0.58 Floor Before: Original suspended floor (and solid floor in kitchen) with carpets After: Compacted and blinded hardcore sub-base, Primary DPM, 300 mm Platinum EPS at 0.030 conductivity, second DPM / separating layer, 100 mm concrete slab on blinded sub-base, 40 mm floating screed laid directly onto slab, Membranes and slab taped and sealed to wall plaster using Pro Clima products including DA - S.