Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proof against damp: as, a damp-proof course of masonry.
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Also, templates have been stretched beyond their original design, which is like using a system for automatically choosing the right material to use as mortar to fill a gap, with support for including layers of other materials such as damp-proof courses, to build entire pillars by telling them to fill a very large gap with repeating layers of concrete.
Snell-Pym » C++ 2009
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Also, templates have been stretched beyond their original design, which is like using a system for automatically choosing the right material to use as mortar to fill a gap, with support for including layers of other materials such as damp-proof courses, to build entire pillars by telling them to fill a very large gap with repeating layers of concrete.
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It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined.
The Woodlanders 2006
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Below damp-proof course, blocks must be stabilized types only, or dressed hard building stones and burnt clay bricks may be used.
3. Innovative technologies related to the increased utilization of low-energy building materials 1995
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It is important, therefore, to provide a damp-proof course layer between the foundation and the soil block work.
3. Innovative technologies related to the increased utilization of low-energy building materials 1995
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In this case the damp-proof material has always to be on the warm side of the insulation.
3. Design rules 1993
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To avoid damp condensation, care has to be taken in placing insulation in relation to the damp-proof material (plastic, metal, aluminium foil etc.).
3. Design rules 1993
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In case of installing single lines in damp-proof clips, on straight runs all upper portions of the clips will be loosely mounted on the line.
5. Fundamentals of installation engineering Werner Boschitsch 1991
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On principle all explosion-prone electrical equipment is to be laid out as a damp-proof installation.
5. Fundamentals of installation engineering Werner Boschitsch 1991
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In case of installing individual or bunched lines by damp-proof clips this will be achieved by observing the following working steps:
5. Fundamentals of installation engineering Werner Boschitsch 1991
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