From Basil, Dennett learned to frame a house, shingle a roof, glaze a window, build a fence, plow a field, fell a tree, butcher a hen, dig for clams, raise pigs, fish for trout, and call a square dance.
The ideal is what I call the Pottery Barn formula house: shingle-style exterior, white Carrera marble kitchens and the white subway tile in the bathrooms, so it looks like the background in the catalog.
Polyvinyl chloride is used in siding for houses, shingles, gutters and downspouts, floor tiles, and pipes and fittings.
There's a lot of stuff like housing shingles, cars, couches and so on that produce a wide range of toxins including mercury, lead and organic compounds, said David Schindler, a retired aquatic scientist formerly at the University of Alberta.
, an expert on all things related to our houses' shingles, says to do a visual inspection of your roof several times a year.
The wood was used locally for such things as frame houses, shingles, canal boats, and wooden bridges, and whole logs were floated to Chesapeake Bay and on to Baltimore, to make spars for ships.
To keep pace with demand, a number of Hamptons builders have begun hiring immigrants from Central America to frame houses, shingle roofs and build swimming pools.
I live some 10,000 miles and two oceans away, in a brown house with shingles".
There were gaping holes on the exterior walls of the two-story house and shingles had been tossed off the building.
It was a classic Hamptons spec house, all shingles and bay windows, and it looked as if it had never been finished.
