If you are working with a batten make sure that the tiles are firmly seated on it. |
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It is usually best to nail a straight wooden batten so that the top of the batten is set to the horizontal line. |
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Extremist political parties are hoping to batten on the fears and resentments that already exist. |
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Given the state of the economy, they feel they have no choice but to batten down the hatches and prepare for a bad year. |
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Simply batten down the hatches using a properly fitting screwdriver and that's it. |
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Although we batten down all bottles and loose items, this time, mercifully, there is only a moderate swell. |
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The batten tips can be screwed in and out to set the overall length of the batten. |
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That warning enabled her to take on extra water ballast, put out sea anchors and batten down for the blow. |
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Sailors hop to it, and in an emergency, they can be counted on to reef the mainsail and batten down the hatches. |
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A length of cord or wire, or a light batten tacked across the legs of the bow, is all that is really needed to hold the shape. |
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Arm yourselves with a fly swat and batten down the hatches for the war against germs. |
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Both sides should just batten down the hatches, prepare for a very long 2004 and remember that miracles, or even acts of God, do happen. |
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By 1980, the mainsail roach had been increased, a full-length top batten added to the mainsail and the jib size increased slightly for a new sail area of 87 square feet. |
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In the meantime, I have ordered a gross of hatches and a quantity of timber from the catalogue, so I can batten them down and engage in some hardcore shivering on the big day. |
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Mr Reinfeldt visits the European Parliament and tells us not to batten down the hatches but to keep the prospect of Turkish accession open. |
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A Europe that no longer tries to batten down the hatches and secure itself. |
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Product picture and dimensional sketch show batten luminaire with enclosure. |
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It has encouraged people to batten down their own ideological hatches, not loosen them. |
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With the optional snap-cap batten, Marquis provides a perfect transition from roof to fascia, and even from fascia to soffit. |
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The large, gambrel-roofed, wood-framed barn is clad in board and batten siding and features numerous large windows. |
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Walls were stoned, windows assaulted, property trashed...and woe betide any Jew who failed to batten down the hatches in time. |
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In its slide show the firm warned bosses to batten down the hatches of their businesses in order to survive a looming economic storm. |
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In this view, we see the steel cladding fitted on the timber batten structure acting as the fresh air plenum. |
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The batten structures are constructed in aluminium to limit the load supported by the batten to a minimum and simplify installation. |
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The location of the lowest batten indicates that the construction of the pilot ladder was not in accordance with regulatory guidelines. |
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It's like wrapping ourselves up in cotton batten in order to absorb the blows. |
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Unfold the mainsail onto the trampoline and insert each batten into its respective pocket in the sail. |
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Crossing T-strips shall be installed along the inside edge of the perimeter zone where the batten strips run perpendicular to the parapet. |
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As is the case with the batten version, fittings and the distribution box can either be built-in or housed in a cabinet at ground level. |
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Snap cap batten provides a structural advantage, results in a more water-tight system, and presents a traditional board and batten appearance. |
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The lighting system is developed by Fulcrum and uses standard high-frequency batten fittings with special reflectors. |
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Our fluorescent tube fixtures mainly contain louver lights and batten lights. |
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This normally means that the batten needs to be laid vertically so that no water remains on the upper edge of the wood batten. |
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Doors are further classified according to door leaf design, including batten, ledged, flush, framed and braced or all-glass doors. |
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I also wonder if Bo has tightened the batten strings to reduce washout. |
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He should make one stop in Michigan to batten it down, and maybe New Hampshire. |
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Pity the poor Zanesvillians who had to batten down the hatches to avoid being eaten by the 18 free-roaming Bengal tigers. |
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Board and batten patterns are laid up using standard dimension lumber. |
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I would prefer a standard flip tip on the last batten rather then a string but in this configuration the tip is more durable to set up and breakdown. |
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Cornwall and Regan batten their gates against the coming storm. |
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If you do it anyway, batten down the hatches and prepare for retaliation. |
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Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos. |
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Ideal for custom designed free forms as well as the traditional roof and façade construction design: using angle standing seams and batten cap cladding. |
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Do not cover any part of the release paper with the batten strip. |
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An exporting country like Canada cannot afford to batten down the hatches. |
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The lowest batten is at the ninth step instead of fifth. |
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A YEAR ago, Australians were being told to batten down the hatches. |
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Yet they still risk doing what many other Asian firms tried to do when crisis struck: batten down the hatches all round and hope their problems will go away. |
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Yet paradoxically, as some companies batten down the hatches, other firms have found ways of making money by opening up their treasure-chest of innovation and sharing it with others. |
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Today there is a similar lure of protectionism, an oversimplified argument that if we just insulate ourselves and trade among ourselves and close the doors and batten down the hatches an international storm will pass us by. |
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Tragal cartilage grafts have been used as shield, alar contour, alar batten, lateral crural onlay, dorsal onlay, and infratip lobule grafts. |
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Their mentality is to get in the foxhole and batten down the hatch. |
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To succeed, many business leaders believe they have to buckle up, batten down the hatches, cut the fat, tighten their belts and reigns and pull up their socks. |
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A broken batten does not substantially impair the kite's performance and therefore there is no need to replace a broken batten always and immediately. |
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It's all she can do to batten down her bitterness. |
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Gove's central curriculum is designed to batten down and to proscribe. |
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A chippie comes to batten down a floorboard, and they all go again. |
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Assembly of the corrugated sheets is always perpendicular to the batten. |
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The first plank, called the binding strake, because it tended to bind the hull together, was temporarily clamped into place so its shape could be marked along the top batten. |
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The floor plan, the board and batten siding and the Gothic Revival detailing found in the chimneys and verandah fretwork were characteristic of Downing's designs. |
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That decline looks set to worsen as firms batten down the hatches. |
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Time, perhaps, to batten down the hatches. |
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At the back of the unit screw a 50mm x 25mm batten of wood the full length of the cupboard, put two screws in each side and fix to the hardboard at the back. |
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Where the curvature is sharp they should be scribed very close together. The batten is next taken off the ship and laid on the timber from which the forehood is to be cut. |
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Though nothing remains of the Batten homestead, he can show you the flagstone which probably lay at the front door. |
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Andrea Finn was second along with three members of other clubs, including Sydney Olympics silver medallist Guin Batten in the women's quadruple scull. |
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Davidson's team focused on the rare, inherited childhood disorder, late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, also called Batten disease. |
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Mr Batten yesterday argued the nolle prosequi also qualified Gee for a refund because he was not convicted. |
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Further south the Hudson takes in water from the Batten Kill River and Fish Creek near Schuylerville. |
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Dave Batten did a lot of good work when he was a councillor for this ward and always attended our Neighbourhood Watch meeting. |
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