Sentences with phrase «plastered house floors»

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Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

2004: Plastered skull painted red is found in the arms of an intact skeleton buried under the floor of a house, raising new questions about kin relations at the site.

Instead there were only the buried, thin plaster floors left from small perishable houses.

The only evidence of houses at the site are the very thin, buried plaster floors found in test excavations.

We've designed the house to use as high a percentage of natural materials as possible, including straw, timber, earthen plaster, and reclaimed flooring.

Client: Hastoe Housing Association Architect: Parsons & Whittley Contractor: EN Suiter & Sons Project manager: Aecom M&E designers: Engineering Services Consultancy Civil & structural engineering: Rossi Long Passive house certification: Mead Energy & Architectural Design Heating & ventilation system: Total Home Environment Electrical services: Alpha Electrical Windows: Munster Joinery Wall ties: Ancon Cavity closers: Cavalok Stainless steel fixings: Helifix Mineral wool insulation (cavity wall): Isover Mineral wool insulation (roof): Knauf XPS insulation (floor): Dow Plaster (for airtightness) & wallboard: Gypsum Airtightness products: Pro Clima Airtight window tapes: Iso Chemie MVHR / heat pump: Genvex

It also has all plaster walls, nine foot ceilings, wood floors throughout, big closets and plenty of old house quirks.

«The house was a 1970s nightmare, with a riot of pine panelling, damp patches, a failing flat roof, crumbling plaster, dated kitchen units and run - down flooring,» says the owner.

We have ceiling tiles all over the 1st floor of our house — ours are held up by wood beams nailed into plaster, so we took the tiles down in the living room, leaving the beams for fear that taking them down would destroy the plaster.