"Roger Mills (aka Set Square)" wrote in message
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Roger wrote:


So am I. Does any of the gubbins (TM) in the roof serve any purpose
other than to have added to the grotesque overspend?

Presumably not, if it couldn't even hold itself - let alone anything
else - up!
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Cheers,
Roger
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Agree. Seems typical of these 'Too bl**dy clever by half ' architectural
'masterpieces'!
Marginally or riskily engineered, maybe, if the loss of a single bolt is
crucial?
Anyway; with temps rising above freezing, must go and clear some snow off
the roof of this wood trussed house. Not sure what snow load the trusses
were engineered for, 36 years ago when I and two carpenters built it!
So far, at least, the roof hasn't blown away or shown any signs whatever of
caving in, in a climate very similar to say, Scotland! i.e. occasional snow
load three times in 36 years.
But then of course this roof is just a plain old wood trussed, lumber roof
built in much the same method used here for the last several hundreds of
years.