On Thu, 03 May 2007 18:05:43 +0100 Pl wrote :
also beam ends sticking out of a roof

This is a wind up, right?

No, I could take you to several examples round here where the main beams
run out to the hipped end of a semi and the beam end sticks up above the
plane of the tiling.

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Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk