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Sentence Examples Solar shingles and roofing tiles now can serve as both roof and electric generators. Our house in Ireland was really nothing more then a cottage with white shingles on the pointed roof, the outer boards a pale shade of green. Roof tiles or shingles decorate buildings in the Harley where none existed previously. They also replaced the house's aging brown-shingle roof with black shingles for house and porch. Consider natural roofing alternatives, such as slate or tile, or high-tech shingles made with recycled materials. By 1994 the exterior siding was installed and the roof shingles were complete. If your house originally had wooden shingles, maybe a brown colored asphalt shingle would work best. Treated wood shingles may leach toxic preservatives, and asphalt shingles may leach small amounts of petroleum compounds. Because of the short lifespan of the shingles, they are slowly being replaced by galvanized metal roof sheets. Seal flashing around roof stacks and vents, between roof valley flashing and shingles, and around roof additions and skylights. If you have a history of cold sores, shingles or herpes, your doctor can prescribe a medication to prevent these infections after laser surgery. Herpes is caused by herpes simplex viruses, which are similar to the viruses that cause chickenpox and shingles. As you get older or if your immune system gets weak, the chickenpox virus may escape from the nerve cells and cause shingles. If you've ever had chicken pox, you may suffer from shingles or herpes zoster. Each year, 600,000 or more Americans are diagnosed with shingles, a painful skin disease caused by a reactivation of the chickenpox virus. Chickenpox and shingles are caused by a virus called the Herpes Zoster virus. Herpes zoster, commonly called shingles, means a girdle in the old sense of a belt. When the virus reaches the skin, it produces a rash and blisters, known as shingles. The medical name for chickenpox is varicella zoster and for shingles it is herpes zoster. It was all cobblestones and houses up on high with slate shingles and ivy crawling all over the place. Show More Sentences Unlike other herpes viruses such as cold sores or shingles, EBV does not usually reactivate to cause a similar illness to the original infection. The differential diagnosis of nonbullous impetigo includes shingles, cold sores, cutaneous fungal infections, and eczema. Homes atop the town's hills were reduced to mounds of shingles and splintered wood. The interiors contain no drywall or plaster, and exterior cladding comprises cedar shingles and plywood. Russell sent his family to safety, then made a breastwork from a pile of shingles at his front door. You may find that a utility knife works better than a circular saw to cut through asphalt shingles. The wood below the shingles looks warped and the guttering is gapping from it. My husband thought he could strip the rotten shingles off the steep roof himself. Secure it with two nails hammered flush, at a 45-degree angle just below the next highest row of shingles. A simple rakeboard outlines the gablet and its face is sheathed with share shingles. Constructed with fire retardant cedar roof shingles and exterior walls made of rough-hewn lumber, it is the quintessential ski retreat. A particular problem with composition shingles is that due to the heat-softening, they become very prone to damage. We looked at copper, composition shingles, slate and concrete, and finally decided on rubber shingles made entirely from recycled tires. Green hardwood battens were then attached to the ribs, forming fixing points for the narrow steel shingles. Someone will have to scale a ladder periodically to keep the vines from attacking shutters and shingles and to prune out dead wood. Before you pick one of the shingles that your builders offers, consult with several local roofers and building supply stores. When it is time to replace roofing, install light-colored shingles to reflect heat. Look at the roof for loose or damaged shingles and contact a roofing contractor for repairs. Thus it is less favored by roofing crews who are usually paid by the number of shingles they install, not by the hour. During the summer months, they often seek shelter behind loose boards, under eaves or shingles, in attics and church belfries, and so on. Show More Sentences Adults, particularly older ones or those with a run-down immune system, can however also contract shingles from a child with chickenpox. For summer rain, trellising can be covered with shingles, shakes, reed fencing bamboo, window screens, louvers, canvas, glass or plastic. One has a roof of fan-shaped shingles, reminiscent of the curved terracotta tiles typical of Kent and Sussex vernacular architecture. To shore up the decaying gazebo, they replaced the footings, added tongue-and-groove cedar on the ceiling, and reroofed with cedar shingles. Beams are of Douglas load-bearing fir, while the extra strength roof shingles and decking are of red Cedar. It is also available in common lumber and plywood sizes, as well as shakes and shingles for roofing and sidewall applications. On the exterior, they replaced the fiberglass wall shingles with stained cedar shakes and put in oversized, divided-light windows. The sudden fall of raindrops on the ceramic shingles roused Dr. Ichiro Sato from a dreamless sleep. You could hear the wind rustling through the shingles and down into the chimney. We had to do all new wiring, reroof, and put on handmade red-cedar shingles. The gray-colored walls of the apartments were weather-worn with cracked paint and the low roof obviously needed new shingles. The front is clad with split cedar wood shingles, and the rear is a long curving terracotta wall of rammed earth. There are also types of adhesive caulking that will mend split or loose roofing shingles as well as splits or cracks in siding. Ice dams will force moisture under roof shingles where it can drip into the attic or walls. Traditional rural houses have roofs of red tiles, corrugated tin, or wooden shingles. There are also pre-fabricated, light-colored tiles, shingles or metal sheets to replace old roof materials. So far, the recycled products include, among others, plastic railroad ties, construction sheeting and roof shingles. Recruits were asked about prior chickenpox or shingles, with details recorded. They overlap with a shiplap joint between courses and a lap joint between shingles in the same course. The inside ceiling was more planks of wood, the outer bark shingles helping to trickle the water off the edges. Show More Sentences The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources. Siding can range from hardboard in 4x8-foot plywood sheets to hardboard lap siding to shingles. Commercial aluminium window frames have been chosen so that they will eventually harmonize with the silver grey of the weathered shingles. Some of the easiest problems to fix include gutters sagging from the weight of the ice, stained or saggy ceilings, and loose roof shingles. Outline roof with licorice twists, fill in with white chewing gum shingles, and star and cinnamon candies. Pregnant women who get chickenpox or shingles have a higher than normal risk of developing pneumonia. As the shingles weather to a deep grey, the house appears from a distance to disappear into the forest. Roofs seemed to jig unevenly as shingles drooped off of the edges, while many had bare spots with no covering at all. Remove enough of the roof shingles, tiles, gravel, or other roofing material down to the tar paper. Start at the eaves of the hip, with a double layer of shingles, and work your way up to the ridge using the standard 5 inch exposure. The fish's body is covered with scales that overlap each other like the shingles on the roof of a house. Slide the saddle, or top flashing, underneath both shingles or shakes and the roofing felt. The pain of shingles may be relieved by painkillers such as paracetamol. Ice and water protection can be used under any type of roofing, including three-tab and laminated composition shingles, wood shingles and shakes, and all types of tile. Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails. Viral meningitis may be caused by viruses such as coxsackie, herpes simplex, mumps, the varicella zoster virus of chickenpox and shingles, poliovirus, echoviruses. Just a few weeks later, she broke out with shingles, an agonizing ailment where the nerves become infected and large blister-like eruptions explode all over the skin. Roofs may be covered with tiles, wooden shingles, or zinc sheets. Once the flat planes of the roof have been shingled, you will need to apply the hip shingles, if you have a hip roof, which will be overlapped by the ridge shingles. As a result, like spruce, fir wood too is used for making shingles, ceiling planks, cheap wall paneling, packing cases, tea chests, match sticks and boxes. Show More Sentences We're not looking for any accolades or shiny shingles for the mantelpiece. The community has adopted the Homeowners Fire Smart Manual, with many residents replacing cedar shingles and combustible siding with fireproof materials, he said. The herbs in this formula all have active antiviral properties and are effective against herpes, shingles, flu, warts, and other viral infections. Excessive heat build-up in an attic can shorten the longevity of composition roof shingles by causing premature evaporation of the oils in the asphalt. If you need to re-roof your home, remember that the key to a long roof life is the right combination of underlayment, ventilation, insulation and shingles. It is a really high roof with an extreme pitch with slippery shingles. It may also help relieve pain from nerves damaged by shingles or diabetes. The roofs are slate, the walls are cedar shingles and facings are white. These Asian ladybugs may overwinter under siding or shingles, in attics or soffits, or even hibernate indoors where they become active on warm days and seek a way outdoors. A person with shingles is contagious to people who haven't had chickenpox. A combination blade is best for cutting through wood shingles or shakes. The shingles are wooden shakes that, apart from the new sections, are greyed from the elements and the outside paintjob is a cream colour with green trim. It is advantageous in that it protects the waterproofing from damage by ultraviolet radiation, and precludes the need for tiles or other shingles. Composite or fiberglass shingles is the most common roofing now in use. Until near the end of his life, Jefferson seems to have been satisfied with wood shingles as the traditional covering for roofs of a regular pitch. The woman had shingles and severe arthritis, and her eyesight and hearing were diminishing. He swapped fish caught in the Potomac for shingles, planks, nails, and rum for the field hands at harvest time. Loss is grief, worry, insomnia, shingles, weeping, and just plain needing someone who is no longer there. The authors conclude that continuous exposure to varicella virus through community contacts protects latently infected adults from developing clinical shingles. Video cassettes, tennis courts, handbags, ballpoint pens and roofing shingles can be made from crumb rubber. Show More Sentences The vaccine also reduced post herpetic neuralgia, or pain persisting after an episode of shingles, by 67 percent. Cladding, shingles, sill plates and exposed timbers or glulam beams are examples of potential applications for treated wood. A drug called gabapentin effectively reduces nerve pain associated with diabetes and shingles, two studies in the Dec. The infection is caused by the varicella zoster virus, which also causes shingles. The carinate ceilings are crowned by 23 different sized cupolas sheathed in carved aspen shingles. The shear force of winds can blow off shingles, and air borne objects can cause damage to power lines, roofing and siding. But don't grow them next to wood shingles or surfaces you'll repaint often, because clingers don't detach willingly. Roofing materials varied, with thatch being the most common, though turf and even wooden shingles were also used. The cost-effectiveness of a new vaccine against shingles remains uncertain, according to a new study. To simulate how the shingles would heat up in summer, she placed each postage stamp-size sample under a 150-watt sun lamp. Older people are also more susceptible to certain skin diseases, such as shingles, varicose veins, leg ulcers and seborrheic dermatitis, a skin rash. However, they were enlarged to two rooms and a skillion, possessed windows with moveable timber shutters and were roofed with shingles or galvanized-iron instead of bark. Paper birch was harvested to cover canoes, chestnut bark for shingles to cover houses and cork stripped from the Cork oak is used in flooring or wine corks. She was too busy fighting off gastroenteritis, gastric flu and finally an attack of shingles which left her so weak that she could barely walk when she came out of hospital. Timbers used for shingles included she-oak, stringybark and blackbutt. The storekeepers of these shops sold their imported goods in exchange for crops and other local products, including roof shingles, potash, and barrel staves. Examples from Classical Literature And they took the string away, and there was a blue line all along the row of shingles. It was made of unburnt bricks, plastered outside, with hand-made shingles on the roof. I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles. He found the city of chalk and shingles not quite so agreeable as last year. It is not uncommon at this time to leave all shingles unpainted and unstained. We sawed our boards with the whipsaw, and made our shingles out of the ash-trees. The church roof is of wood, and shingles of rended oak occupy the place of the usual tiles. Eighteen miles off a man had some extra hand-cut shingles which he was willing to trade for a horse-collar. Vaccinating from age 50 to 59 years would prevent about 20,000 shingles cases annually. There's a bunch of shingles at least in every stump ye've left. The rain, chilled almost into hail, drummed on the shingles. As regards the amount of shingles made, even dealers are much in the dark. It was built of shingles, and the roof was made of cedar boughs. Take some of the shingles, Jane, and close up the open side of the box. He took it up and disclosed a shapely little treasure-house whose bottom and sides were of shingles. Abandoning the attempt to conceal, our architects drew upon their invention for means to ornament the offensive shingles. A second potato burst like a bombshell on the shingles behind him. No chalk line was necessary, as the shingles were laid by the sheathing. But he grew right mad at last, and began to send down blows so fierce and fast that you would have sworn a great hail-storm was pounding on the shingles over your head. The announcement by MoDOT about its new shingles spec puts Missouri in a lead role to further the development of shingle recycling throughout the country. Show More Sentences The uppermost branches drop their leaves on roof shingles, which, unless regularly swept, will be eaten away by the humic acid of the decomposing foliage. From the cave we have advanced to roofs of palm leaves, of bark and boughs, of linen woven and stretched, of grass and straw, of boards and shingles, of stones and tiles. Find more words! 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