For example, thick walls made with metal or concrete may interfere with Wi-Fi signals.
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Shelf-like metal beds, three-high, topped with a thin mattress are bolted to the thick walls.
Removing these would be dangerous and expensive: the thick walls can only be blown up with great force.
That night, I cannot get warm, despite the blankets and thick walls.
We have very thick walls which insulate the house perfectly and on sunny days in winter we don't have to use the heating.
Sometimes I had to walk around my house, waiting for a connection to reestablish itself. (Metal doors and thick walls can block a Bluetooth signal).
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The couple will miss the home's low utility bills, high air quality and the quiet created by the thick walls as well as the green cred with their children.
Older houses also can also be renovated to meet passive-house standards, but such renovations are rare because of the extra-thick walls and high technological requirements that certified passive houses demand.
Between 1420 and 1924, 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived here in near-total seclusion, rarely venturing out beyond the 10-metre-thick walls, and commanding an almost divine power over their subjects.
Aurora's facility has bullet-proof windows and thick walls.
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They provide insight to what is actually going on within the company, and allow employees to breakthrough the often thick glass walls of organizational silos.
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Thick adobe walls that retain heat during the day and slowly let it out during the evening are often used in the Southwest when it gets chilly at night.
They saluted and lowered the ridiculous cotton string that barred the road to the castle heights, which meandered up the hillside past the thick stone walls and into an immense central courtyard.
He objects to monolithic buildings like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which separate their collections from the hubbub of the street with vast staircases and thick stone walls.
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Inside a 13th-century building, the restaurant's thick, stone walls are the colour of butterscotch.
Imagine the cost of restoring hundreds of rotted oak beams and replacing stonework on castellated walls four feet thick.
Concrete walls several yards thick make restructuring the layout generally rows of small rooms suitable for sheltering civilians and supplies a daunting and expensive challenge.
One of their greatest challenges, however, is seeing through thick veils of smoke and walls of flame to find people in need of rescue.
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The room has walls that are as thick as a small person's hips.
We got to see a scope that could spot enemies through walls and shoot through thick cover after charging up an armor-piercing round.
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The Monadnock is a good place to get a practical sense of how quickly these innovations were catching on: the original northern half of the building consists of traditional load-bearing walls that are 6ft thick at the bottom, while the southern half, constructed only two years later, uses the then-revolutionary metal frame for drastically thinner walls that go just as high.
Thus, the three- to six-foot concrete walls with 3-inch thick steel reinforcements, depending on design.
Family photos still hang on the walls and the dust is thick on the top of the frames.
It took him and a 16-year-old neighbour three weeks to pile 1, 400 pieces of sod in all, 78 tonnes of material into a house of less than 200 square feet (18 square metres) with walls that were three feet thick.
Irregularly shaped windows in the karsheef walls provided natural light, and a stack of thick candles indicated where illumination would come from after sunset.
From the inch-thick brogues of the actors to the neon signs on the walls of the barroom set, it's as convincing as a deathbed confession.
The conversion took five years, and involved removing the roof, more than 10 feet thick, with a diamond saw, as well as extracting interior walls to make space for the art.
The high point of the journey came on the second afternoon of the trip, as the ferry approached the incredible ice walls of the Patagonian glaciers, entering a turquoise-tinted bay thick with floating icebergs.
There's a fine, often surprising selection of large, angry, mature abstractions, with their jagged, flamelike shapes and troweled-on expanses of thick pigment, their labored surfaces seductive in the flood of light against warm concrete walls.
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Walking through the door is like opening the window on an advent calendar: the walls are painted a vivid raspberry, and wintry draughts are kept at bay by thick red curtains across stone doorways.
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