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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.
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The roof on my French house is wavy. And it's at an angle (about 20-25 degrees).Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 5:40 pm The roof on my house is flat.
It's just tilted at an angle too.
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Bugger all rain and the roof is solid concrete.demographic wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 5:37 pmSurrounded 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.
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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.
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That house featured on George Smiths Amazing Spaces.mangocrazy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 10:29 amFair 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.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 7:58 amGoes beyond even that, there are standard beams, columns etc. that are pre made off site.mangocrazy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:29 pm 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?
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.
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.
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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.
PS it looks like a stretch-limo version of a corporation toilet.
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I bet the neighbours were pleased.
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Bloke over road from our restaurant having a barbie in the street
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I reckon the AP50 was king, but what do I know. A mate has owned one of these from new:
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I had this in 6th form. Parents wouldn't lend me dosh, so worked paper round, caddyin and babysitting
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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.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:19 am 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
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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.
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Death = immortality for shit musicians? Having listened to John Lennon's live vocals I concur!
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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.
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Bad Manners are playing here soon.Newey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:45 pmThere 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.
But we gotta pay
Council usually pay for all the concerts, including Disturbed a few years ago.
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Yep had to pay for the Squeeze one, about $200 for the 2 of us.Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:54 pmBad Manners are playing here soon.Newey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:45 pmThere 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.
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