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Loewen is a Canadian millwork manufacturer of wood window and door systems for residential and light commercial use. The company uses Douglas Fir and Mahogany for its products. . Loewen targets the high-end market, and, as of late 2019, has a network of several hundred dealers across North America, employing over 500 peo
A window screen (also known as insect screen, bug screen, fly screen, flywire, wire mesh, or window net) is designed to cover the opening of a window. It is usually a mesh made of metal, fibreglass , plastic wire, or other pieces of plastic and stretched in a frame of wood or metal.
A timber bridge or wooden bridge is a bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material. One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times. Wooden bridges could be a deck-only structure or a deck with a roof. Wooden bridges were often a single span, but could be of multiple spans.
Likewise wooden shingles are manufactured in differing lengths, in North America, 16, 18 and 24 inches (410, 460 and 610 mm). In Latvia, wooden shakes were defined in a 1933 national standard as 70 centimetres (28 in) long, 7.5 centimetres (3.0 in) wide and 8.5 millimetres (0.33 in) thick. They are a product of planing or running a knife along ...
Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen in a "flood stroke" to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact.
The wooden screen with openable windows gives shade and protection from the hot summer sun, while allowing the cool air from the street to flow through. [24] The designs of the latticework usually have smaller openings in the bottom part and larger openings in the higher parts, hence causing the draft to be fast above the head and slow in lower ...
Orange is a city located in northern Orange County, California, United States.It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the county seat, Santa Ana.Orange is unusual in this region because many of the homes in its Old Town District were built before 1920.
The County of Orange was established in 1889 by founders William Spurgeon and James McFadden. The City of Santa Ana became the county seat the same year. Prior to its formation, the Orange County lands were part of Los Angeles County. Further back in history, California lands were organized into Spanish land grants or "Ranchos".