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To do this you need to make marks, called layout marks, on the ledger and girder that show where each joist will be located.
When using the nail-on and adhesive method, use three nails across each wallboard at each joist.
Overhead, in the center, was the summer-tree, a timber 20x14 inches, into which the joist was framed, planed, with no lath or plaster.
However, as the spans increase it is possible to lay the decking in the vertical position and widen the beam or joist spacing.
He explained that a tie joist is on the column line with both flanges attached, contributing to the stiffness of the frame.
Positioners are built into the forms for the steel rebar used to reinforce each joist, and a layer of mesh is placed in the deck.
Wendy had just lifted her foot to step over to the next joist, and the sudden noise made her startle badly.
Some are distinctly organic, the bark still on the sinuous floor joist, a chimneystack of undressed stone.
Secure the spanning joist to the post and toenail it to the center nailing block.
The steel ball allows the punching bag to move freely in any direction and reduces the pressure on the ceiling joist.
Do a similar layout on the girder, so that you know exactly where each joist crosses the girder.
The space between floors, the sub-floor, rim joist, and plates is also sealed.
He crept on narrow planking laid across the ceiling joist of the sanctuary.
I heard these stories from the crawl space under the floor joist of the cosmology shop, where I practiced the espionage of childhood.
Rafter pairs are joined directly to each joist by means of mortise and tenon joints.
They support a trimmer joist which itself supports trimmed joists, joined together using 'timber to timber' hangers.
When insulating on the inside of stone and brick foundations, do not insulate the joist space.
However, joists located at perimeter of platform have plywood decking panels located only on interior side of joist.
This corbel was part of the wooden ceiling of the prayer room of the Great Mosque of Kairouan, acting as a joist for the ceiling beams.
If fact, if there is already some insulation in the joist space, adding more may not be economical.
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The house was so shaken that it gave way at every joist, and he was within an ace of dragging the whole grange over on end.
She had caught sight of one of my feet underneath the joist that served as a wedge to keep the cask in place.
Two small forks or bucks-horns fastened to a joist are indispensable articles for the support of the rifle.
Fumbling about this, Wilson discovered in the corner several pieces of joist, and these he propped against the door.
No man, other than a union carpenter, would be allowed to even set a joist.
I left him, father, but I tied him to a joist in the ceiling with a long rope.
He put his knee against it and shoved, but the joist held firm.
Fitz moved, joist in hand, towards the other side of the clump.
A joist was found on one end, driven nearly three feet into the ground.
A roar of applause shook every board and joist of the building.
After crossing her hands, he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the purpose.
To all the woodwork round the prison-doors they did the like, leaving not a joist or beam untouched.
Carpenter standing before his vice-bench, and by the light of two lanterns busily filing the ivory joist for the leg, which joist is firmly fixed in the vice.
A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
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