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Sentence Examples A young and fairly trendy crowd pack it to the rafters in the evening, so slide in just after lunch for a trayful of their superb cocktails. Special metal plywood clips will add stability to the splices where the sheets meet between rafters. The roof is an off-white translucent membrane spanning gently curving rafters. Because Miller's family owns a sawmill, he agreed to take care of the sill plates, the truss material, and the rafters. Sunday, the other collar beams, the roof-support structure and roof rafters were erected. The roof has the same sort of mysterious but simple majesty of a big barn with six wooden trusses and exposed rafters. Do not nail the edge rafters where the sheathing meets until the adjoining sheet is in place. A hotel worker dons a gas mask to keep out the stench from bird droppings while removing the nests from the rafters. We used beautiful recycled redwood for barge rafters, fascia boards and decking. Purlins are butted against the principal rafters in true south-eastern fashion, supported on long tenons taken through the principal. Or choose from hand-hewn barn beams and pole rafters, rich in character and historic detail with a beautiful aged, natural patina. Plastic sheets temporarily hung from the rafters until a new door arrives don't succeed in blocking the wind, but a space heater helps. Wooden joists and rafters are very common structural features in small homes and houses with curb roofs. The flicker of candles provided the only light and the rafters creaked along, shaking with the sound of elders singing in Cree. To make the room feel airy they raised the ceiling to a 12-foot peak and exposed the rafters, then painted the walls and trim white. The interior is equipped with rows of nails or poles suspended from the rafters for hanging the cured hams. The massive rafters of the Red Sails were low, with wisps of cooking smoke winding their way around the hanging oil lamps. We used the hints of Monterey style shown in the exposed rafters, porch posts, and white stucco walls as cues for our design. Its slanting steel rafters and sweeping interior vistas make it look more like a hi-tech business park than a secondary school. Inside the original rafters and walls are adorned by two splendid hobs over a fireplace. Show More Sentences Crystalline chandeliers hung from high rafters and soft music could be heard from somewhere down a long carpeted hallway. The nests are usually constructed of mud mixed with straw, grasses, or horsehair, and cemented to the vertical surfaces of old beams or rafters. At least one pub is packed to the rafters with sweaty and chanting fans watching games on the big screen. I know that when you are framing a gable roof, you can use collar ties in lieu of attaching ceiling joists to the bottom of the rafters. Nail up a set of reference strings on the rafters that protrude the most into the attic. Reflective systems are typically located between roof rafters, floor joists, or wall studs. A guide demonstrated the procedures followed before rafters are allowed to proceed down the river. There's a lot of water pumping through the Fitzroy River at the moment and for a team of whitewater rafters that makes for exciting conditions. The taller one spoke next, breaking the silence with his voice echoing throughout the metallic rafters high above them. Those who want to meet with their fellow rafters in the evening to discuss the day's activities are invited to a barbecue. It was not exactly a risky position, my only danger was being mashed by fellow rafters as they banked right, or so I believed. He said the number of canoeists and rafters had risen so much it was driving fish and anglers away and ruining his business. Secure the rafters with two nails driven through each side of the rafters and into each of the double beams. Most of it is the same Colorado River water that rafters bounce on and environmentalists hope to undam upstream. We need an access point to the river for drift-boaters, for canoers, for rafters. Years of neglect and a massive infestation of dry rot have left rafters sagging. Both discs are packed to the rafters with music and as such deserve nothing less than a wholehearted recommendation. The Leisure Centre, which was hired out for free, was filled to the rafters with eager fans. Cows swayed slowly in their sleep, a horse whinnied in its dream, and chickens bobbed up and down up in their nests atop rafters. A series of thumps echoed from above her head, but she could not get any light up in the rafters. Show More Sentences The keyhole saw will minimize the vibration between the span of the rafters and will be less likely to cause the drywall to break or crack. Not content with cooing and pooing from the rafters, a few of them decided to take up permanent residence in the foyer. Two days later, they finished the rafters, and in another two days they had a roof again. The rafters at Goodison were soon reverberating, as was one of Charlton's goalposts when Beattie's angled shot rebounded from the woodwork. He blew a stream of smoke into the rafters, and being a superstitious lot, they watched until it dissipated, wraithlike, in the firelight. The ancient pubs are filled to the groaning rafters with imbibing undergraduates. Wheels hang from every inch of the rafters, and donated bike parts are stashed in metal filing cabinets that rattle on the uneven flooring. The rafters are three and one-half inches thick by six inches wide at the eaves tapering to four inches wide at the ridge. Staple the foil to the bottom or side of the rafters, draping it from rafter to rafter. Cassel seems to enjoy playing to the rafters and a tiny bit of fun can be had watching him put the screws on Owen. There can't be many stadiums full to the rafters every week even though their team has lost six matches in a row. In some homes, instead of bare timber ceilings, the rafters would be concealed with plaster, which also was sometimes decorative. Though she'd been told otherwise, right to the last that woman thought a surprise rabbi would appear from the rafters to say mazel tov. For hardwoods, such as flooring, siding and rafters, use spiral threaded nails that turn as they are driven into the wood. The stadium, packed to the rafters, throbbed to a pulsating Celtic soundtrack. Massive roof rafters or deluxe roof trusses with collar beams are also cut to complement homes with exposed roof systems. A chaplain is trying to deliver the closing benediction with confetti and late-arriving balloons still cascading down from the rafters. Home to a wacky wizard, it's a gothic mansion packed to the rafters with mischievous goblins and no-good ghosts. There was a stitched netting of spiderwebs in the heavy rafters, gray whorls of them thick with dust, and the musty odor of kerosene from the lamp upon his chiffarobe faintly sharpened the air. Instead of using large rafters to support the roof, a building tradition that is hundreds if not thousands of years old, home builders began to use roof trusses. Show More Sentences In normal roof construction and roofing, plywood or waferboard sheathing panels are installed over the rafters and meet snugly at the peak of the roof. As the rafters supporting the floor above were near this beam, which had to be removed, that portion of the second floor had to be propped by the firemen. You need to be sure these new boards attached to the rafters all come out to exactly the same level, because you need to attach your finishing material to an even surface. The strands were tucked between the rafters of the roof inside the hut. As the rat scurries along the rafters and through the thatched roofs of 14th Century England the infected fleas would drop down off their backs onto the humans below. She followed the cat into the barn, where the light was dim and the cool air smelled of hay and things wild hanging from rafters and hiding in corners. A few small oil lamps were hung from rafters in strategic spots, casting lonesome pools of illumination to steal the gloom from the darkest corners. The other rafters and kayakers came back in the afternoon and they all reported that they had had a fabulous time at their respective water sports. Passengers on nearly every trip are treated to views of kayakers and rafters piloting the North Fork of the Payette, one of Idaho's best whitewater rivers. It is not about the river as a recreation area for kayakers and rafters. I carried her with me and placed her on the ladder and she scrambled up, her little, ragged dress catching momentarily on the nails of the rafters. More than likely he was celebrating from the VIP section, in the second floor rafters overlooking the dance floor. Each of the huge rafters had been carved from a single tree, and old tombstones told tales of deaths on distant shores as, indeed, they did in Kochi's St. Francis Church. The joined struts are mortised and tenoned to both the joists and rafters. The House of Representatives is bursting to the rafters with contenders for the title. Jars or barrels would be stocked with sausage, headcheese and pickled pork, and hams, bacon and sidemeat were cured and hung from rafters for future use. Mr Green got for you a large lot of split stuff for rafters. Cheered to the rafters as he briefly appeared on the conference stage and glowingly welcomed as he toured the exhibition stands, the former leader took all before him. Posts and rafters were hand-sawn and planed using timber from a nearby forest and, to reduce the use of wood, rafters were trussed with steel wire. The assembly hall at the school was packed to the rafters as family, friends and fellow pupils cheered on the models when they took to the catwalk in local fashions. Show More Sentences The living room features a block floor, stone fireplace and exposed rafters, while the kitchen has a range of cream fitted units as well as a stone wall chimney breast. There was a great deal of repetitive, careful woodwork in order to create the top rafters, collar beams and the purlins that lock them all together. Each pair of rafters with collar beams makes an independent joint. The music reverberated from low rafters hung with ornamental gasoliers. Modern attic rafters or traditional rafter and purlin construction will get you out of the forest of crossed members typical in a post 1960s house. Two, two-by-six inch collar beams crossed at right angles some nine feet off the floor tying four of the hip rafters together. On new buildings, a solid fire retardant barrier over the rafters can make the thatch sacrificial in case of fire. The oldest piece in the store was a wooden-handled de-thatching rake, which was bracketed way up near the rafters. The under rafters are quite heavy and cut at right-angles. The upper ones are prolonged and curved up by jointing far-projecting splockets. I began by hanging a plumb bob between the rafters of the shed covering the kiln location to locate the centre of the circle for the kiln. The house on the hill made creaks in the rafters, and Bill's hair was grass-green, in fact it was grass, period. White, pink, and purple heads of globe amaranth, along with peppermint, sage, and oregano hang from low rafters perfuming the air. And where there are rats in the rafters, send in a ratter, one who bites back, calmly, clinically. Instead of exposed rafters and a warehouse feel that many electronics stores have, the Zobo. The room gives off an air of clean spareness. The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed. Fiery red strings of chilies, called ristras, are common in the Southwest, particularly in fall, when you see them hanging from rafters to dry in the warm desert air. The cedar roofing and shiplap was cut into 4-foot wide strips, knocked and pried from the rafters from inside the structure and sent to the debris pile. I walked through the door and Jeremy had hung himself from the rafters. A stepladder was kicked over and his Adidas dangled right above my eye level. We got all the roofing removed, but the chimney was damaged and we discovered that some rafters had to be replaced. One step forward, two steps back. Or maybe three. These rafters are connected at the top by a round bar, the smoke pole, which also serves to take the hooks on which the cooking pots are suspended. Examples from Classical Literature The wooden columns had no capitals, and the only architrave was the horizontal beam that supported the rafters of the roof. Logs and skulls of baleen whales had been set on end for walls, and mandibles and ribs of whales had been used as rafters. Another gleam of light, bluer and more penetrating than its forerunner, lit the brown rafters of the cabane. Without customers, and with no use for the diviner's lens but to charr the rafters of the garret in which you lived. The base is nailed to the lower edges of the rafters, and the facia is then applied. Boxes and dusty bottles littered one side of the floorless apartment, and spider webs hung from the rafters. The principal are the halling, a Hardanger solo dance consisting of wild gyrations and vigorous kicks at rafters of the room. We next had to get out some thirty rafters of hibiscus to support the roof. And I laughed again till I thought there must be some elf scrambling among the rafters of that smothery ceiling. A triangular tray of bayug or of ilang-ilang wood decorated with palm fronds is made and suspended from the rafters of the house. When the inhabitants were removed to knap in North Curry and elsewhere, they took their old rafters with them or sold these. The roof is formed of rafters, with round poles laid on them longitudinally. The cots were brought down and placed quickly among the fallen rafters, stone and tiling. Over the rafters we laid a roofing of slabs, starting with the bottom and lapping them, as we had done on our tree house. The rafters of the great living-room shook with the roar of wassail and of song. He cleared his throat and his eyes wandered, raptly, as of old, into the dim vastness of the rafters. He came into the redly glowing room and his head almost touched the blackened rafters. One of the boat's masts was used for a ridgepole, and the oars for rafters. She had seen a framework erected, a rooftree set, and joists and rafters and beams swinging into place. She sighed a murmur of dispraise, At which, methought, the rafters shook. Show More Sentences It was a large room, with a rough splintery floor, unplastered rafters overhead, and two bedsteads on opposite sides. The walls were all on fire and the back wall had fallen in, the wooden roof was collapsing, and the rafters were alight. Before the thatching begins, there are laths to put upon the rafters. When firefighters arrived 5-feet flames were shooting from the rafters and the intense heat was popping off roof tiles. Her dark kitchen with its dirt floor would have had flitches of bacon hung to smoke from its rafters. Black as the inky rafters and wainscot except for occasional splotches a few shades less begrimed, where repairs had been made. Wood for the rafters of the hall was cut from the baronial forest. It was a very small stuffy fusty room, with boards, and rafters, and cobwebs, and lath and plaster. A nest of the junco was found on the rafters of a barn in Connecticut. It was a kind of an attic place, Uncle, all beams and rafters and cobwebs. The dachshund's pathetic shriek of outrage made the rafters ring. Hams, salami and bunches of herbs hung from the smoky rafters. Nierenberg interlaces his story of gospel's coming of age with plenty of foot-pounding, handclapping tunes that let out the Spirit and shake down the rafters. The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold. In the second storey of the Custom-House there is a large room, in which the brick-work and naked rafters have never been covered with panelling and plaster. The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot. The rafters, I observed, were made out of the timbers of a ship. For your rafters are broken and your ridgepole is shattered. I abode until roof and rafters crackled and crashed around me. Find more words! 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