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  2. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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    Section view through a house roof drawing showing names for parts of the structure. [clarification needed] (UK and Australia). Ctrs. means centers, a typical line to which carpenters layout framing. Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1]

  3. Traditional Korean roof construction - Wikipedia

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    Gulpi (굴피) is a kind of roof material used usually in mountain villages. [1] The oak bark is over 20 years old. At first, the oak bark is peeled at the time of Chuseo (one of the 24 seasonal divisions, about August 23). Next it is put into water. After that, it is dried and a heavy stone is placed on it to flatten it.

  4. House plan - Wikipedia

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    Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

  5. Sod roof - Wikipedia

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    The term ‘sod roof’ is somewhat misleading, as the active, water-tight element of the roof is birch bark. The main purpose of the sod is to hold the birch bark in place. The roof might just as well have been called a "birch bark roof", but its grassy outward appearance is the reason for its name in Scandinavian languages: Norwegian and ...

  6. Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia - Wikipedia

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    It is very powerful, easy to use, and free of charge. To begin using Dia, you first need to download the program and install it. If you are using Microsoft Windows you can download the Windows installer here. If you are using Linux, you download it from the repository that you normally use and install it as you install other software.

  7. Wood shingle - Wikipedia

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    Wood shingles Fiber cement siding and shake shingles under the gable roof. Wood shingles are thin, tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather. Historically shingles, also known as shakes, were split from straight grained, knot free bolts of wood. Today shingles are mostly made by ...

  8. Woodchips - Wikipedia

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    Woodchips used for chemical pulp must be relatively uniform in size and free of bark. The optimum size varies with the wood species. [12] It is important to avoid damage to the wood fibres as this is important for the pulp properties. For roundwood it is most common to use disk chippers.

  9. Slab hut - Wikipedia

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    A bark roof was common, and was quickly and easily erected. [21]... the roof [was] covered with forest box or stringy-bark, which was stripped from the living trees in sheets of about six feet long and from two to four feet wide, laid upon rafters composed of small sapling poles just as they came from being cut in the bush.