Examples of sill in the following topics:
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- This means each load-bearing wall sits on a wall sill plate, which is the bottom horizontal member of the wall.
- Sill plates are usually composed of lumber, but can be made of other materials as well.
- The sills are bolted to the masonry or concrete foundation.
- When on concrete, the sill plate is anchored, usually with embedded bolts in the concrete substrate of the foundation wall.
- Using a top plate and a bottom plate, a wall can be constructed while it lies on its side, allowing for end-nailing of the studs between two plates, and then the finished wall can be tipped up vertically into place atop the wall sill; this not only improves accuracy and shortens construction time, but also produces a stronger wall.
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- Senate in 1858, South
Carolina senator and planter, James Henry Hammond, demonstrated this logic by
arguing that slaves comprised, “the very mud-sill of society,” or a bottom supportive layer to a
class system delineated across racial lines.
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- Most important was the introduction of massive sills underneath the staves (posts) to prevent them from rotting.