Building Maintenance Quotes

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

The fact of the matter is the West Wing never gets fully renovated because nobody wants to vacate it. And so you have basically patch-up jobs that are being done, but it's a tight and cramped environment.

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood." "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire." "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer." "Whoa." Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

The best is to go into a train station that I've built and buy a ticket. The guy in the ticket booth might recognize me, which is a marvelous feeling, but it might be that he doesn't and I go in like any other passenger, except that I enter with a critical eye, looking to see how it's held up.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors, balcony colors, etc.. And all of this has to work together, in harmony.

A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.