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Ian Stirling
 
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Default Loft Modification.

Andy Burns wrote:
Guy King wrote:

They were all left out of our house when it was built around 1970. It's
still up.


Yep, roughly same age of house here, has got the "longitudinal binders"
but nothing corresponding to the "diagonal wind brace" or "chevron braces"


In practice.

As long as plenty of nails have been used at each joint, rather than
just one or two allowing each joint to easily pivot, I suspect it'll be
just fine.