The chicken-wire roof, which had once foiled hawks, now kept Nero from jumping out.
SIX years ago, Greg Lemke, a scientist in La Jolla, Calif., took a close look at his modest 40-year-old house and realized, he said, "that the basic structure — plumbing, drains, wiring, roof, furnace — was starting to fall apart".
The presence of accessible open structures such as barns, stables, or culverts to provide nesting sites, and exposed locations such as wires, roof ridges or bare branches for perching, are also important in the bird's selection of its breeding range.
Today, copper is still used in coins, but it is primarily used by industry, in electrical wires, roofing and plumbing materials, and in industrial machinery.
He dug and planted and fenced a vegetable garden, cut paths through the woods, looked after repairs on the house — not just the sort of repairs that almost any house owner could manage after a while but those that involved plumbing, wiring, roofing, too.
Copper is widely used in electrical wiring, roofing, and production of alloys, pigments, cooking utensils, and piping.
The only real heart-in-your-mouth moments kick in each time we hurtle head-first into the 15 degree gradients of the concave twists, with only a wire mesh roof and a helmet between us and an extreme close-up of concrete.
Staple wire to roof and down side of home.
Revere hasn't participated, though, even as its customers moved their production of copper products like pots and pans, electrical wiring and roof gutters offshore.
The actress-photographer left her design mark on the 1956 home, rebuilding and updating it with new wiring, plumbing, roof and windows, a security system and other improvements.
