What is a stone dike?
A stone dike (Dutch: stenendijk) is a dike weighted or faced with stone, such as brick, basalt columns or concrete blocks, to resist waves and erosion.
How to build a root cellar: your own natural food store
Want to build a root cellar? Get the step-by-step build, ventilation, ideal temperature, costs and permission for your own underground food store.
Growing potatoes for self-sufficiency: from seed potatoes to a 6-month supply
Growing your own potatoes for storage? Work out how much you need, what to plant, and how to chit, plant, earth up, harvest and store for months.
What is a strut frame?
A strut frame of walings and horizontal struts holds the sheet pile walls of an excavation against soil and water pressure. How it works and what to watch.
What is a provisional sum?
A provisional sum is an allowance in a building contract for work not yet defined, such as a kitchen. The difference is settled once the real cost is known.
What is a stelp farmhouse?
A stelp is a Frisian farmhouse type with the house and the barn under one large roof on a rectangular plan, usually with a hipped roof.
What is a stelnok?
A stelnok is a Dutch term for a projecting nib on which a component rests and is adjusted with a levelling bolt or wedge before it is fixed.
What is a window subframe?
A window subframe is an auxiliary frame fixed in the wall opening during the shell stage; the finished window is fitted into it later.
What is a door frame spreader?
A door frame spreader is a temporary bar at the foot of a door frame that keeps the jambs the right distance apart while the frame is fixed.
What is a Stelcon slab?
A Stelcon slab is a large steel-edged reinforced concrete paving slab for heavy traffic, used on industrial yards, quays and as temporary site roads.