Sentences with phrase «used as a backstop»

Not exact matches

«Pushing this through the Senate during a lame - duck session with the hopes of using the Christmas holiday as a backstop is irresponsible.

Once you've built some equity in your property, you may have the ability to take out a home equity loan, which could be used as a further backstop for unexpected expenses.

In the backstop house, we modelled all the minimum backstop values for insulation, windows, airtightness and renewable energy and used a gas boiler as the heating source.

So if you're using a traditional heating system such as gas or oil, the backstop U-values listed above come nowhere close to compliance.

Sequoia exteriors were also used as fire backstop / shelters.

In our living room, I used two base cabinets, shortened the depth by a few inches, used existing trim as a toe plate and built a custom knotty alder shelf -LRB-» countertop») and backstop to hide wires.