But if you shore the structure with timber, and then weld its stones together by applying the grouting machine, you turn the whole mass of masonry into a monolith, and can then strengthen the foundations in any way that may be found necessary.
It would have been unsafe to attempt any examination of the foundations for fear of bringing down the whole fabric; consequently the grouting machine was applied all over the building.
Grout, we understand, is a mixture of cement, sand, and water, and the process of grouting was probably not unknown to the Romans.
But the grouting machine is a modern invention, and it has only been applied to ancient buildings during the last six or seven years.
In future, owing to this wonderful invention of the grouting machine, these old bridges can be saved and made strong enough to last another five hundred years.
Whenever an especially troublesome one was met, a special grout pipe was put in to fill up unavoidable holes by grouting after the concrete had set.
The machine used for grouting was the same as that used for grouting outside the metal lining.
No provision was made in the contract for grouting the concrete arch, but it soon became evident that by ordinary methods the top part of the concrete could not be packed solid against the iron segments, especially in the keys.
Plate XLI, which is a view of thegrouting operation.
For later grouting work, namely, in the top of the concrete lining inside the metal lining, Rockaway Beach sand was used.
After the grouting was finished, the arches were rubbed over with wire brushes to take off discoloration, and rough places at the junctions of adjoining lengths or left by the block laggings were bush-hammered.
Grouting was also done through the regular grout holes of the metal lining around the openings.
The portions of arch not water-proofed were rather wet, and grouting with a 1:1 mixture was done, but only with the effect of stopping large local leaks and distributing a general dampness over the whole surface of the arch.
With this in mind, the contractors proposed to substitute an English Blue Lias lime as a grouting material.
To meet this difficulty, provision was made for grouting any unfilled space.
In spite of great care in excavating in front of the shield, and prompt grouting behind it, there was a small settlement of the building above, amounting to about 1-1/2 in.
The artificers had completed the laying of the twenty- seventh or first course of the staircase this morning, and in the evening they finished the boring, trenailing, wedging, and grouting it with mortar.
The artificers had completed the laying of the twenty-seventh or first course of the staircase this morning, and in the evening they finished the boring, trenailing, wedging, and grouting it with mortar.
I am not stable-master, but feed the grouting piglings.
It was, therefore, often found necessary to repeat the grouting of the same joints with mortar several times.
The building artificers, however, found employment in boring, trenailing, wedging, andgrouting the last laid course.
The artificers on the Rock laid two stones to-day, and were otherwise employed in trenailing and grouting the Seventeenth course.
During this tide only four stones were laid, but the time was otherwise occupied in boring, trenailing, wedging, and grouting the joints of the stones last built.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grouting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
