You go about talking to wooden joists and beams and plaster!

Nicholas felt the collapse of a wooden joist, eaten through by the ferocious fire.

Nothing but a higgledy-piggledy structure of wooden joists.

Its loose end rested on narrow projections of metal fastened to a wooden joist, just below the door sill.

Our little building, with its wooden joists and masonry bearing walls, was quite likely the first human habitation ever to occupy that patch of earth.

It was one wooden joist that caught fire when it was overheated by a steam pipe.

In the undercroft is a medieval stone arcade and a wooden joist which has been dated by dendrochronology to 1260-80.

They had scarce reached it, however, ere they found that the wooden joists and planks of the flooring were already on fire.

This is an intentional gap that keeps the hot chimney from setting the wooden joists on fire, but it provides an open passage for air leaks.

I stood on a chair and punched through the bullet hole and raked the plaster back until I found a wooden joist.

While the Lake View School was built with load-bearing masonry outer walls, much of the four story building's floor structure system used wooden joists.

While the interior arms are supported by wooden joists, the interior part of the hemispherical dome is plastered and painted white.

He probed at the bricks and the wooden joists and the electrical wiring and then, he found what he was looking for.

Workers are preserving the uneven parquet floors, the crisscrossed wooden joists and the industrial window frames while installing modern kitchens and bathrooms.

Perhaps a hundred feet further along they came to a stretch where the walls and ceiling were shored up with tree trunks and propped with wooden joists.

Mr. Ronaldson was inching cautiously along the second floor, searching for hidden fire in the walls and the floor, when wooden joists supporting the slab gave way.

You would have to insert pieces of rubber between the pipes and the wooden joists where they rub against each other, or perhaps cut away a little more wood in these places.

Walking down the staircase, we could clearly see where they had been - the fireplaces are still in place, along with the setbacks for the wooden joists that supported floor and ceiling.

In a yawning, three-story-high space with cables, wires, construction lighting, reinforced steel beams, box girders and sawn-off wooden joists, a crew of workers was lowering an old door on a rope.

She reached the kitchen counter and climbed up on it as quickly as she could, then reached above for the wooden joists that ran across the kitchen and helped support the roof.

Laughter gripped her, and she bowed her head against his shoulder as he said, "It was only a bad tremor, an' nobody was killed, but we were pinned down on the bed by a wooden joist, and smothered with plaster.

The row house that collapsed in Brooklyn on Thursday, injuring 11 workers, had warped wooden joists and an old, weak brick support wall that appears to have given way as workers were rebuilding it, the engineer overseeing the project said yesterday.

While the Quonsets were built over plywood floors on steel joists placed directly on the ground, the barracks were slightly elevated on wooden joists over an 18 - 24" crawl space which aided in heating them during the winter months.

A lookout, lookout rafter or roof outlooker is a wooden joist that extends in cantilever out from the exterior wall (or wall plate) of a building, supporting the roof sheathing and providing a nailing surface for the fascia boards.

Roger Byrom, a graphics designer, lives across the street from 60 Warren and worries that the building, with its old wooden joists and beams and load-bearing walls, could come tumbling down - especially if a fire starts in the dry-cleaning plant on the ground floor.