Does this take the place of a separate horizontal purlin (which sometimes has vertical struts onto a load bearing wall, or
45 degree bracing back to the gable walls or some other load bearing structure ?.roof collapse walthamstow
Nov 04, 2022
Last reply: 3 years ago
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No East Europeans to do it 'manually' ?
I am guessing that "box and oxters" is fluent Jock, so was hoping for a translation into a term we might have heard of darn sarf!
London was mostly roofed with Welsh slate, which is thin and relatively lightweight.
purlin roof doesn't require oxters
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Looks like wrecking balls are just a figure of speech now. I suppose they are hard to aim.
I remember being on a bus into Glasgow city centre that had to stop for about ten minutes, while a bulldozer drove across the road. It was pulling a cable that had been wrapped around the base of a building and, as that cut through the building, it collapsed very neatly onto itself. These days they would probably have cordoned the road off for a few days.
Don't worry, you're excused. This is southern talk.
If you look at adjacent roofs, I don't see a sag that would accompany a sagging purlin. In fact they look very straight that implies the roof is wholly dependent on rafters? BICBW
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i see that
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