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I'm trying to pitch a flat section of roof on my house because it leaks. Flat roofs are sometimes flat because of too-low or badly-defined building height limit
by zbrozek 5y ago
I'm trying to pitch a flat section of roof on my house because it leaks. Flat roofs are sometimes flat because of too-low or badly-defined building height limits.
Boringness also probably comes from increasing numbers of people involved in approvals. Try getting some wild thing through public hearings and city councils. Much harder than a cube. The boringness is a feature, not a bug.
I bet there's a ton of other factors too, like the cited attention cost of detail.
- Haemm0r 5y agoThe way I see it, in Central Europe the reason for a flat roof on a single family home is mostly cost advantage (on short sight) or architectural. Someone said: There are two types of flat roofs: Those that are leaky and those that are not leaky yet.
- zbrozek 5y agoI've heard this stated a few times - that flat roofs are meaningfully cheaper - but really? How? The tiny bit of extra material to add a bit of height to some ridge seems trivial. Where's the cost?
- ivanche 5y agoI really wonder how is that so. Even in my home country which is easily in the bottom 10% of Europe's poorest I lived in a building built in 1977 (!) with flat roof. It never had a leak until this year, and on the first sign of it tenants found some company to install some membrane and gave them 10 year no-matter-what warranty on it. And it was super cheap when divided on 30 owners. And we're talking about a country with average monthly salary of $400 or so.