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Typically the knee wall is covered with plaster or gypsum board. The term is derived from the association with a human knee, partly bent. Knee walls are common in houses in which the ceiling on the top floor is an attic, i.e. the ceiling is the underside of the roof and slopes down on one or more sides.
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Split-Level House. A split-level home (sometimes called a tri-level home) is a style of house in which the floor levels are staggered.There are typically two short sets of stairs, one running upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement area.
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A pony wall is a short wall.. In different circumstances, it may refer to: a half wall that only extends partway from floor to ceiling, without supporting anything.; a stem wall, a concrete wall that extends from the foundation slab to the cripple wall or floor joists.
DENVER (AP) — Residents in a small city in northeastern Colorado were cleaning up Tuesday after hail the size of baseballs and golf balls pounded the community, with heavy construction equipment ...
An igloo (Inuit languages: iglu, [1] Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᒡᓗ (plural: igluit ᐃᒡᓗᐃᑦ)), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow. Although igloos are often associated with all Inuit , they were traditionally used only by the people of Canada's Central Arctic and the Qaanaaq area of ...
A snow fort in Washington, D.C., United States. A snow fort consists of walls of piled and compacted snow. They may be "open" or "closed", that is, a person in the snow fort may be completely surrounded by the walls on all sides, there may be a "door", or the person may be completely exposed on one side.