Sentences with phrase «tar roof»

Lisa Rapoport had an equally difficult challenge with the roof of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto; here were the fanciest tables in the high end restaurant on in the Daniel Liebskind addition, overlooking an ugly black tar roof with barely any structural capacity to hold the roof.

Last, the combined respiration of the plants in the greenhouse - collectively an enormous evaporative surface - cools the air and helps to reduce the «heat island effect» created by the typical black tar roof.

I live here in Baltimore where it currently is a 6 degrees below normal anomaly gathered off a tar roof downtown at Customs House in U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) for GISS data, decades of city development too that area, police cars on street would raise reported temperature.

The wood barracks with tar roofs provided little comfort for the cramped inhabitants.

They could be spotted raking leaves, painting houses and tarring roofs.

Instead of leaving the tar roofs black, he advocated the painting of them white.

Conceived as an index of roofs — rather than as individual paintings — these works suggest a collective presence and relate strongly to Gates», whose father tarred roofs for a trade.

Gates's piece is a moody abstract painted partly with tar and executed with the help of his father, who'd worked tarring roofs in Chicago to support his nine children.

from flat roofing systems to hand fabricated copper and ornamental roofing asphalt roofing to even hot tar roofs.

Not exact matches

I would also imagine that a tar / stone roof is cheaper than a shingled roof.

Up on the tar - papered roof of MIT's International Design Center, Anna Young struggles against the wind to secure a parabolic mirror to a scaffold of metal pipes.

COOLER CONDITIONING: On a sunny, 80 - degree - Fahrenheit day, a tar or black - painted roof can reach 180 degrees F; a white roof 120 degrees; and a plant - covered roof 85 degrees.

New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg has committed city funds to converting some of the area's black tar and stone roofs into highly reflective white roofs, which reduce temperatures on roofs and cooling costs but fail to address the storm water runoff problem.

Not only did you find that the roof had been tarred in 2 areas but that the copper plumbing had been stolen from the crawl space!

The advantage of these are they have lots of room and are designed to be secure, the down side is the roof materials can often include tar and other weather proofing materials which can be unattractive as well as smelly.

Referencing the collaborative and improvisatory building tactics often used in the neighbourhood, the installation will be made from bare timber and raw pieces of wood that will support angled roofs of tarred, fluted cardboard sheets.

Drawing on the rawness of the urban environment, McCloud works on tarpaper instead of canvas, enveloping it in layers of liquid tar, foil and aluminum roof coating.

Cohen, author of the critically acclaimed A Chance Meeting and the forthcoming Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, describes Geer's process in intimate detail: «What she is drawing is not fruit in a bowl or a reclining nude but the folds in her backpack, the tar stains on the roof of her studio building, the lean of the city buses parked in the lot across from 133rd street.

[JS 433] 2006 Plastic baskets, mirror, nylon, carpet, tulle, thread, paint, yarn, squirrel trap, sculpy, blanket, shower curtain, roof flashing, fur, roofing tar, plastic ties 24 by 56 by 21 in.

Appropriating the material legacy of his father's roof - tarring profession, Gates produced thirteen large and unremarkable canvasses of various roofing substrates smeared with thick black tar.

The study of 24 experimental roof tops during fall 2006 and spring 2007 at the center suggested a green roof could reduce a building's air conditioning bills about 21 percent compared to traditional, tar - based black - top roofs.

Heat islands are caused by the construction of dark surfaces — like asphalt pavement and tar - paper roofs — and the removal of vegetation — which cools the land with both shade and moisture.

Every roof should be like this, habitable, productive green space instead of black tar.

Then flat roofs came in and were covered in tar and asphalt, which needed a lot of maintenance.

Temperatures can be elevated on roofs due to the higher solar radiation absorption and re-radiation associated with many roof surfaces including black tar, shingles, stone, and metal.

Patching up any holes with tar, measuring and cutting the shingles for the edges of the roof in order for the shingles to fit and look ideal, and nailing down the shingles into the roof.

tare off and replace roofing with shingles or metal, On flat roofs we would replace with hot tar or dura - last

When assisting clients this spring, consider recommending a completely new take on the traditional tar - and - shingle roof — I'm referring to cool and green roofs.

When assisting clients this spring, consider recommending a completely new take on the traditional tar - and - shingle roof — cool and green roofs.

Traditional tar - and - gravel roofs usually last 10 to 20 years; composition shingle roofs, which are a popular choice these days, usually last about 20 years; and clay - tile roofs, like those seen on Spanish - Mediterranean homes, can last for 50 years or more (yet are much more expensive to build and maintain).

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