utterly random picture thread.

[mangocrazy]

Some years ago I was in Cyprus, where flat roofs are also prevalent (as is minimal rainfall) and they used the flat roof as a place to mount solar thermal tubes and an insulated hot water tank. Most houses had such an arrangement as I recall.

[mangocrazy]

The roof on my house is flat.

It's just tilted at an angle too.

The roof on my French house is wavy. And it's at an angle (about 20-25 degrees).

[Yorick]

99% of buildings here have flat roofs.

Surrounded by lots of trees and in an area of high anual rainfall, especially if it's got an internal gutter means it gets blocked by leaves and then deposits its contents into the internal building envelope (on yer telly) which is an utterly dogshit idea.
Normal gutters (even on a flat roof) just leak on the outside of the building and cause a damp patch at the top of a wall. Thats less of a dogshit idea.

I'm gonna guess that you don't have over a metre of rainfall per year, nor several sycamore tree's overhanging the house.
Plus a lot of homes in Spain use the flat roof as a roof terrace so in theory, its better maintained and if there's a blockage its easy to access.

Bugger all rain and the roof is solid concrete.

[demographic]

Before the last building work,we had a room with a flat roof for over 30 years with no bother. Materials have improved since then.

It rains the odd time here.....

Parapet walls round it, nternal gutters with loads of overhanging trees?
I'm guessing not.

To be fair, I'm more against internal gutters than a flat roof and there's a lot of pitched roofs with internal gutters (often on old hotels with several extensions) as well.
Oh and as Dazzle has pointed out, they're not actially flat and generally have about 20mm or so fall per metre.

[Taipan]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Goes beyond even that, there are standard beams, columns etc. that are pre made off site.

There's a house in Spain made from them. I think it's great but it may not be to all tastes.

Yes that is a swimming pool in that huge gutter.

Fair bit of cantilevering going on there. I'm sure all the design calcs have been done and the concrete sections are heavily Rebarred, but it doesn't quite look right to me from an engineering standpoint.

And with my aesthetics hat on it's just plain f'n ugly... The Park Hill flats in Sheffield (which I can see from where I'm typing this and were inspired by Corbusier's work) are downright pretty compared to that.

That house featured on George Smiths Amazing Spaces.

[Count Steer]

This one makes me think of 'Hang on lads, I've had an idea!'



PS it looks like a stretch-limo version of a corporation toilet.

[Count Steer]

I bet the neighbours were pleased.

[Yorick]

Bloke over road from our restaurant having a barbie in the street

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[Yorick]

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[Pirahna]

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I reckon the AP50 was king, but what do I know. A mate has owned one of these from new:

[Yorick]

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I reckon the AP50 was king, but what do I know. A mate has owned one of these from new:

I had this in 6th form. Parents wouldn't lend me dosh, so worked paper round, caddyin and babysitting

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[Newey]

Guess you might also be familiar with the former Tricorn centre in Portsmouth?

There was discussion for ages about tearing down this properly 1960s brutalist concrete shopping bunker.

In the end they got rid of the ugly building and replaced it with a beautiful car park

With the ever popular, for the young and trendy ahem, Shirt King, Saturdays market day was really busy. Remember seeing a new, as they hadn't been out long M1V Cortina in the tricorn with milk crates under the axles and all the wheels gone.

[Taipan]

This Day in 1977...


upload free pic

[gremlin]

I do wonder if the popular icons who died young would be so well remembered had they lived a longer life, maybe dragging out a half-baked career, doing shit gigs before retiring into relative obscurity.

[Taipan]

I do wonder if the popular icons who died young would be so well remembered had they lived a longer life, maybe dragging out a half-baked career, doing shit gigs before retiring into relative obscurity.

Death = immortality for shit musicians? Having listened to John Lennon's live vocals I concur!

[Newey]

I do wonder if the popular icons who died young would be so well remembered had they lived a longer life, maybe dragging out a half-baked career, doing shit gigs before retiring into relative obscurity.

There appears to be a big market for" previously loved" ex 80s music bands doing the rounds, went to a Squeeze one last week ( very very good)who were backed up by The Beat, also had a couple of unknowns (to me) playing, saw Billy Idol a few weeks ago, tribute bands also seem to do well.

[Yorick]

I do wonder if the popular icons who died young would be so well remembered had they lived a longer life, maybe dragging out a half-baked career, doing shit gigs before retiring into relative obscurity.

There appears to be a big market for" previously loved" ex 80s music bands doing the rounds, went to a Squeeze one last week ( very very good)who were backed up by The Beat, also had a couple of unknowns (to me) playing, saw Billy Idol a few weeks ago, tribute bands also seem to do well.

Bad Manners are playing here soon.
But we gotta pay

Council usually pay for all the concerts, including Disturbed a few years ago.

[Sadlonelygit]

Tamper proof my arse

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[Newey]

I do wonder if the popular icons who died young would be so well remembered had they lived a longer life, maybe dragging out a half-baked career, doing shit gigs before retiring into relative obscurity.

There appears to be a big market for" previously loved" ex 80s music bands doing the rounds, went to a Squeeze one last week ( very very good)who were backed up by The Beat, also had a couple of unknowns (to me) playing, saw Billy Idol a few weeks ago, tribute bands also seem to do well.

Bad Manners are playing here soon.
But we gotta pay

Council usually pay for all the concerts, including Disturbed a few years ago.

Yep had to pay for the Squeeze one, about $200 for the 2 of us.

[Sadlonelygit]

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I reckon the AP50 was king, but what do I know. A mate has owned one of these from new:

This was joint fastest along with some kind of fantic

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