Sentence examples for masonry tools from inspiring English sources
Where would a nun get masonry tools?" "Poor Mara".
MY Italian forbears might be pleased that their descendants could make a living without a set of masonry tools, but I've long considered it a mark of shame that I never learned how to handle a trowel.
I go full-bore about the bricklayers, that ultracheesy motivational story, about some visitors who arrive in a foreign city and meet a man on his knees with his masonry tools.
He's sweating and grimacing, and they ask him what he's doing, and he says, "I am laying stone". And they see another man on his knees up ahead with his masonry tools, and he says: "I'm building a wall; I got a wife and kids and bills to pay, man!" And they come upon the next guy on his knees with his masonry tools, and he is whistling and aglow, with a song in his heart, and he says: "Me?
The city also encounters problems with actual concrete — private contractors may clean off plaster and masonry from their tools and let the water carry away to the sewers.
The transformed sand is easy to carve using tools like masonry trowels and painters' pallet knives.
The results indicate that macro-modelling using structural component models and pushover analysis are adequate approaches for the seismic assessment and design of unreinforced masonry buildings, as the tools require very low computational resources, allow easy interpretation of results and provide satisfactory accuracy.
It is a luxurious 21st-century home within an 18th-century structure, architecturally correct down to the proper hand-tooling of masonry grout.
The methodology proposed here for testing grout injectability in a porous media like masonry is a logical tool to use in grout optimization.
Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) confinement represents an effective tool for retrofitting masonry piers or columns enhancing their structural performance.
Cyclic tests on brick masonry can be a useful tool in assessing the material ductility, stiffness degradation, and energy dissipation capacity.
