Admittedly there may have been a big thaw but it looks more like a construction flaw being to blame than the snow.
Tim
Admittedly there may have been a big thaw but it looks more like a construction flaw being to blame than the snow.
Tim
Doesn't look enough snow to be significant there.
Looks like Paul's Driveways have expanded into general building.
Owain
Metro says: People living in the street said snow had piled onto a car port at the side of the house, which gave way and brought the gable end of the council property down.
Owain
That makes sense. I wonder how many folk think about that when fitting a cantilevered roof like that?
Tim
Which still comes down to poor construction, as Tim suggested.
Colin Bignell
Yes, I think being *that* cantilevered would do it!
Did you manage to find the lock on your car?
The supporting wall would have to have to be pretty damn strong for that design to work. I'm thinking a number of 6" I beams 3 or 4 feet into the ground, though if cast into the raft/foundations one could probably reduce that.
Some one really didn't do their home work properly when they designed that or maybe it was supposed to have supports along the distant edge and the builders didn't bother. The edge looks very close to if not overhanging the boundary.
Do you think its the down pipe or the 1x1 that's holding it up? Maybe the 1x1 is bracing the half finished fence?
You'd hope there was more than those two gallows brackets holding each of them up ...
Yes, 50mmx50mm was too generous, maybe 38mmx38mm ?
Looks like they got a twofer deal from some supplier of badly engineered car ports.
I thought I was over engineering our new (part completed) car port but now I'm not so sure.
Certainly can't see any 100 * 100 steel posts holding that up.
Cheers
Dave R
pipe for the gutter...
Is heavy snow made from heavy water?
Brian
before.
JGH
En el artículo , David.WE.Roberts escribió:
They just look so *wrong* somehow. Mind you, the houses themselves are nothing special either.
may be it is designed like the crumple zones on a car so that if something falls on it it won't dammage the house.
PS I was referring to the flimsy one.
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