When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of house types - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_types

   A-frame gable-style house, Portugal. A gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables. A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A.

3. Le Roy House and Union Free School - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roy_House_and_Union...

   The two-story brick building Benson had constructed on the site of the current house is its earliest section. At that time it had an entrance on the west (now a window) and a narrow circular stair to the garret. An adjoining room to the north had a vaulted ceiling. The basement had the extant cistern and cold storage. [2]

4. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(construction)

   Wall framing in house construction includes the vertical and horizontal members of exterior walls and interior partitions, both of bearing walls and non-bearing walls. . These stick members, referred to as studs, wall plates and lintels (sometimes called headers), serve as a nailing base for all covering material and support the upper floor platforms, which provide the lateral strength along a

5. Single-family detached home - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_detached_home

   The definition of this type of house may vary between legal jurisdictions or statistical agencies. The definition, however, generally includes two elements: Single-family (home, house, or dwelling) means that the building is usually occupied by just one household or family and consists of just one dwelling unit or suite.

6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing

   The completed frame of a modern timber-frame house Ridge-post framing (left) and story framing (right, with jetties) Historically, the timbers would have been hewn square using a felling axe and then surface-finished with a broadaxe. If required, smaller timbers were ripsawn from the hewn baulks using pitsaws or frame saws.

7. Deck (building) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_(building)

   Railings on decks above 760 mm (30 in) are considered guard rails. [according to whom?] Guard rails have a specific building code requirement for both height and structural strength. Most U.S. commercial building codes require a 1,100 mm (42 in) guardrail on decks, and 910 or 1,070 mm (36 or 42 in) for a residential code depending on the state.