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Default How much harder is it to make a flat roof with a small slope?


"GB" wrote in message
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I see them all the time - flat roofs that are completely level, and water
pools on the roof just waiting to get into the building. Why don't they get
built with a slight slope, maybe 1-2cms per metre? If that were done, the
worst of the water would run off rather than pooling and the roof would dry
out quickly once the rain stops.

Of course, that's harder to build, but how much harder? Is the main issue
packing out the joists so the roof slopes, or is there more to it than
that?



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Murphy's ultimate law is that if something that could go wrong doesn't,
it turns out that it would have been better if it had gone wrong.



They usually are sloped. "Firring pieces" are attached to the roof joists to
achieve this. The roof drain may be blocked.
But flat roofs are bad news, you're right.