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  2. Stilts - Wikipedia

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    Children of the Banna people in Ethiopia on stilts Plasterer's (drywall) stilts A French postman on stilts, early 20th century Stilts from China in late Qing dynasty. Stilts are poles, posts or pillars that allow a person or structure to stand at a height above the ground.

  3. Drywall - Wikipedia

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    Various sized cuts of 1 ⁄ 2 in (13 mm) drywall with tools for maintenance and installation . Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, [1] wallboard, sheet rock, gib board, gypsum board, buster board, turtles board, slap board, custard board, gypsum panel and gyprock) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of ...

  4. Stilts (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Stilts are a common architectural element in tropical architecture, especially in Southeast Asia and South America, but can be found worldwide. Stilts also have a large prominence in Oceania and Europe as well as the Arctic, where the stilts elevate houses above the permafrost. The length of stilts may vary widely; stilts of traditional houses ...

  5. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.

  6. 'The Narrow River won': A fight to build a house on stilts in ...

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    The house would have been build on an undersized wetlands lot adjacent to the Narrow River.

  7. Gypsum - Wikipedia

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    Gypsum board [36] is primarily used as a finish for walls and ceilings, and is known in construction as plasterboard, "sheetrock", or drywall. Gypsum provides a degree of fire-resistance to these materials, and glass fibers are added to their composition to accentuate this effect.