The caper begins with the group chiseling through a cement ceiling from an upstairs flat on a Sunday night.
I saw a young Mexican woman who while running at full speed in the dark, hit her head on the dropped cement ceiling of a drainage tube.
The bathroom — "I love, love the bathroom," Denise enthuses — is completely clad in a ridged porcelain tile that echoes the loft's original tilt-up cement ceiling that stills shows the grain of the wood planks.
Long bestowed with an aura of mystery, notably in the film of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, which depicted the archive as a high-tech steel bunker of secrets, the archive is in real life a more down-to-earth maze of grey corridors with bare cement ceilings, winding staircases and sleepy scholars consulting an index system dating from the 18th century.
It must be said that the Met's renovation of Breuer's icon is a marvel of elegance and restraint, in service to Breuer's muted materials: slate floors, bronze doors, cast-cement ceilings.
At the MRC site in Walikunda, there are six experimental huts (Figure 1) purpose built of a traditional square design with mud walls plastered with cement, plywood ceiling, thatched roof, open eaves, a window in each wall and a door facing north east towards the River Gambia.
A further 15% is found in areas such as cold water storage tanks, insulation materials, eaves, gutters and rainwater pipes, while 10% is in cement panel ceilings, 10% in outbuildings and 5% in fire protection materials, for example on the underside of integral garage roofs and in cupboards enclosing boilers.
It has been hanging on by a thread for many years, almost forgotten in an industrial area opposite a cement plant: roof near collapse, ceiling beginning to crack, porch sagging, barely (if at all) open to the public.
The floor of the cave has a coating of cement, while the ceiling of the middle room bears painted concentric circles.
Soffit and ceiling cement board products are available from a number of manufacturers and have a variety of surface finishes.
Three meters down I discover a tunnel a meter wide with an arched ceiling and cement walls interspersed with crude masonry in which a man my height can stand upright.
