A tree house propped upon a simulated tree trunk has a platform, a cabin thereon, a main support column supported in a ground anchor, a plurality of diagonal struts, and a variety of simulate tree dressings for the column and struts. The cabin is built upon the platform and forms an inner living space that is served with potable water utilities, waste water utilities, and public-utility electric service. The main support column extends downward from the platform about a relative center of mass of the platform and cabin together, to ultimately sink into the ground anchor. The plurality of diagonal struts extended diagonally downward from the cabin radially spaced away from where the column extends downward from the platform, and join the column intermediate the platform and ground anchor. There furthermore are simulated tree trunk dressing covering the column, and, simulated tree branch dressing covering the struts.

There is provided a method for forming a three-dimensional decoration on a wall surface, wherein the method comprises: drawing a sketch on the work wall-surface; installing a crack-prevention member on the work wall-surface to suppress a separation between the three-dimensional decoration and the wall surface, wherein the crack-prevention member is disposed in a first region corresponding to the sketch; plastering a cement-mortar in the first region on the work wall-surface so as to embed the crack-prevention member in the cement-mortar, thereby to form a cement-mortar relief; three-dimensionally engraving a front face portion of the cement-mortar relief to form a cement-mortar relief-type decoration as the three-dimensional decoration; and coloring the cement-mortar relief-type decoration using a mixture of silicon as a binder and coloring pigments.

An expanded metal lath may be formed by slitting a metal sheet or strip in a defined pattern and subjecting the sheet or coil to a tensile force sufficient to cause the slits to form a plurality of openings. The web bands forming the plurality of openings can include a heavier web bands in areas where fasteners will be used to affix the expanded metal lath to a substrate and lighter web bands in other areas where fasteners will not be used. The expanded metal lath can include stabilizers or selvedge wires at opposed lateral or longitudinal edges to protect the expanded metal lath during shipping and installation. The expanded metal lath may include furring elements integrally formed with the web bands to raise the expanded metal lath off an underlying surface.

A covering system for insulation devices (2) on (load-bearing) structures has a connecting device (24) including a carrier surface (28) with touch-and-close fastener elements (30) that can be connected to correspondingly designed touch-and-close fastener elements (22). A reactive functional surface (36) is fitted, as a further component of the connecting device (24), on the side (34) of the carrier surface (28) directed away from the touch-and-close fastener elements (30). The reactive functional surface bonds permanently, under predeterminable shaping pressure and at a predeterminable reaction temperature, to a preferably closed-cell foam material (4; 26) of the insulation device (2).

Wall structures and methods for producing wall structures are described in this specification. The wall structures include a frame, a sheathing board attached to the frame, a foam layer, a bond break layer, a lath layer, and a stucco layer.

A self-aligning corner bead for fireproofing structural steel, having a strip of welded wire fabric cut to the appropriate width for the fireproofing thickness and bent longitudinally to form an obtuse V-shaped device is disclosed. A plastic nosing is installed along one edge. A method of finishing the corners for fireproofing of structural steel member using an improved corner bead includes the step of attaching the first wing of an obtuse V-shaped device through a lathe to the structural steel member utilizing pneumatic or screw type fasteners. The mesh structure of the second wing of the V-shaped device provides a dam to form a roughened surface on the first application of fireproofing material until it hardens.

A self-aligning, double wire corner bead for fireproofing structural steel along a plurality of surfaces, the corner bead having a single strip of welded wire fabric cut to a predetermined width for the fireproofing thickness and bent along a plurality of longitudinally extending lines, to provide a profile having a plurality of dihedral angles is disclosed. A nose is installed along two edges. A method of finishing the corners for fireproofing of structural steel member using an improved corner bead includes the step of attaching the corner bead through a lath to the structural steel member utilizing fasteners. The mesh of the corner bead provides a dam to form a roughened surface on the first application of fireproofing material until it hardens.

A system and method for cladding a building. The system comprises a rigid base layer supported by an exterior exposed surface of the building and a metal mesh secured and retained in direct contact with an exterior surface of the rigid base layer with fasteners. The system further comprises a layer of a base coat applied over the metal mesh so as to form a matrix therearound and a finishing barrier layer applied over the matrix of the metal mesh and the base coat layer. The method comprises securing the rigid base layer to an exterior exposed surface of the building, securing and retaining a metal mesh in direct contact to the exterior surface of the rigid base layer with fasteners, applying a cement base coat over the metal mesh so as to form a matrix therearound and applying a finishing barrier layer over the base coat.

A combination rainscreen/lath assembly comprises a corrugated spunbond layer and a lath layer operatively connected to the corrugated spunbond layer. Optionally, the lath layer is corrugated. The assembly is configured and arranged to allow air and moisture to flow therethrough.

A laminated board is secured to the inner wall of a cavity wall construction to establish a defined spacing between the inner and outer walls and prevent excess mortar from bridging to the inner wall. The laminated board has a series of spaced sockets into which fasteners may project into the face of the inner wall or framing thereof to secure the outer wall. The board is installed prior to the construction of the outer wall and establishes a minimum spacing or gap between the walls based upon the thickness of the board. The outer wall is constructed immediately adjacent to the outer face of the laminated board. The board is impervious and eliminates bridging by the mortar, eliminates transfer of bulk water from the exterior finish to the inner wall and provides an air conduit to exhaust even the minimal amounts of vapor that will occur in the cavity.