Squash block materials: A lumber. squash block is a 2 x 4 or 2 x 6 lumber. block that is oriented with the grain of. the wood running parallel to the vertical. axis of the web of the joist. The squash. block is cut just slightly longer than the I-. joist is deep, usually 1/16 inch longer.
Velvet Revolver, âFall to Piecesâ (2004) Weiland always had both the pipes and the bravado to pull off a proper power ballad, and this arena-worthy epic, with his short-lived Guns Nâ Roses-associated supergroup, was one of his grandest.
Mark E. Smith performing in London in 1980. Credit David Corio/Redferns, via Getty Images . Mark E. Smith, the English songwriter and singer who since 1976 had led the Fall, a definitively uncompromising post-punk band, died on Wednesday at his home in Prestwich, England, near Manchester, where he had lived since childhood. He was 60.