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[Solus]

Speaking of roofs.

I learned something about them a few years ago.

I had noticed that roofs has very different slope angles from one building to another.  I wondered if it had something to do with attic space, or was necessary for two wings of a building to join smoothly...  Nothing I thought of seemed to fit the patterns I was observing.

Then I realized roofs farther north tended to be steeply pitched and the pitch tended to be less as you moved south and  figured it was to prevent snow piling up in heavy snow areas....the less snow got the less pitch you needed.

[santahog]

Speaking of roofs.

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Then I realized roofs farther north tended to be steeply pitched and the pitch tended to be less as you moved south and  figured it was to prevent snow piling up in heavy snow areas....the less snow got the less pitch you needed.

That's essentially correct, which doesn't explain Wal-Mart.. Does Wal-Mart heat their roof or something?? How do you get away with that acres of flat roof thing in the north without collapsing??

(Nope, I'm not a carpenter..)

[tombogan03884]

They are built to hold a certain amount of weight, but with bigger storms they are shoveled off.
Flat roofs are actually fairly common on large stores , factories, and malls up here but they do need to be cleared.
Occasionally one falls in.

[TAB]

FLat roofs are not very flat at all.    I did a cabin not to long ago that had a very low pitched roof (3 12) up near tahoe.  The roof was steal and had both passive and active heating systems. To keep the snow off.    it was pretty cool, but the system would be $$$$$$ to replace if it fails.   one of those clients that wanted something, and do to codes it ment doing something "out side of the box".  Which is always fun, but can be a pita if the client is a bitch.

[Pathfinder]

That's essentially correct, which doesn't explain Wal-Mart.. Does Wal-Mart heat their roof or something?? How do you get away with that acres of flat roof thing in the north without collapsing??

(Nope, I'm not a carpenter..)

I arrived at work one morning here in North Dakota and found a truck lifting very large snowblowers (3 or 4 of them) to the flat roof of the building so the clean up crew could get to work removing the fluffy white stuff from the blizzard. There was something like 12-15" of it in that fall.

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