The joists had drawn gradually out of the wall, and the eastern end being first freed, that side fell downward, shooting most of the stones and earth up into the pit at the eastern side.
But although he looked long and anxiously, he could see no sign of any of the joists giving way.
Otherwise the joists will be eaten, the floors eaten, even the furniture eaten, and one day everything that is made of wood in the house will collapse.
Nowadays the whole area on which a house is to be raised is covered with cement or with asphalt, and care taken that no timber joists are allowed to touch the earth and thus give entry to the termites.
The fabric would hardly come together at all, and then only three joists appeared without anything to cover them.
The Joists being fastened to the Summers, you must fix to them Spanish-Broom with Greek-Reeds well beaten.
The roof being thus sloped and laid over in rows in the same manner as the joists were laid on the braces, the musculus was covered with tiles and mortar, to secure it against fire, which might be thrown from the wall.
The entire roof was off; one could see the rotting joists and beams, some fallen, some falling, the rest ready to fall, like the skeleton of a felon left to rot on an open gibbet.
But the joists of the flooring were there, and the whitewash of the walls showed that but a few, a very few years back, the house had been inhabited.
Joists connecting the beams supported the floor; and the under side was covered over by sheathing or lath and plaster, thus forming, as in the case of the roof, hollow spaces which were a source of danger.
The lower joists were made from timbers taken from the barn floor, 2 x 8 inches wide and long enough to reach across the building.
The joists on top were 2 x 6 inches, by 16 feet long.
The dark ends shown are the joists on which the floor is laid.
For double floors the ironjoists are made with a double flange on their lower edge, and are fitted to iron girders, which cross in the opposite direction.
A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like.
One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor.
As if she ever could learn enough about joists and beams and girders and installing water and gas and electricity to build a house.
She had seen a framework erected, a rooftree set, and joists and rafters and beams swinging into place.
Each of the big metal kerosene lamps swung high on the joists threw a circular blotch of shadow on the floor, but the light from them fell brightly on the bar, increased in brilliancy by reflection from the long row of mirrors.
It was a vast shell of planks and shingles, with skeleton joists and rafters bare overhead, built hastily and crudely to serve its ephemeral day.
Great dray loads of square timber, and two-by-eight pine joists kept arriving from the planing mill.
Then the excavation deepened and the dirt flew, and the beams went up and the joists across, and all the day from dawn till dusk the hammers of the carpenters clattered away, working overtime at time and a half.
Some cross-pieces are put on the joiststo hang the bacon on.
Fortunately, two large joists or couples, being deeply embedded in the substance of the walls, remained, when the rafters and ridgepole were torn away, or we must have been crushed in the ruins.
If the launch is very heavy or of scant beam, like the steam craft I mentioned, you had better use joists or spars to help the leverage.
We took two big joists and lashed them across the boat, but so poorly fitted was she with cleats and other things to make fast to that we had to bore holes in the deck to pass the lashing and secure them to the frame.
The ends of the joists stuck out about fifteen feet on the high side.
Will it strengthen the floor sufficiently to enable it to carry the increased weight if I bolt three 3 inch by 8 inch joists to the existing ones?
You had better use 4 inch by 8 inch joists bolted with ⅜ inch bolts about 10 inches apart.
Across their angles slighter joists are placed, and this operation is repeated till a small dome, open at the top, for the entrance of light and the escape of smoke, has been erected.
In the British Museum (Nimroud Gallery, Case A), fragments of recovered joists may be seen.
They would require joists at least thirty-three feet long, a length that can hardly be admitted in view of the very mediocre quality of the wood in common use.
On this occasion the chase continued to Penkenner.
A few days after this I had a dream remarkably distinct and impressive, so impressive was it that on awaking every particular therein was stamped indelibly on my mind.
Wyatt had committed his adventures to paper before starting, and had disposed of the MS.
The timbers supporting the lower floor of a building, distinguished from joists by being filled in between with cinders or concrete.
He placed three tree trunks on each side for pillars, laid joists across, formed his angle, and nailed boards as a foundation for shingling.
Simple matter of a few pillars already cut, joists joined, and some slab shingles left from the cabin.
The night the new home stood, a skeleton of joists and rafters, gleaming whitely on the banks of Loon Lake, the Harvester went to the bridge crossing Singing Water and slowly came up the driveway to see how the work appeared.
The joistssupport the fiat roof of loose pine boards, laid sometimes in a double layer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "joists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
