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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:42 pm
by Pablo
This house is in the part of the highlands that I'm from and was featured on grand designs a few years back. It was the one where the fella spent weeks sandblasting the beams to make them look better but having lived up there I remember saying at the time that it should be tied into the footing because the roof had a large overhang and would get peeled by a severe westerly. I don't remember a single bit of steel being used it was all just bolted together wood to wood. Must be a frightening thing to happen all the same.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:59 pm
by local patios and driveway
Ouch, of course ins company, then ultimately the rest of us, will pay to repair it.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:12 pm
by lutonlagerlout
you really have to calculate for the worst case scenario when designing stuff
all our roof calcs include a potential 500mm of snow,highly unlikely but it may happen one day
feel for the people their house is dead
LLL
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:15 pm
by bobbi o
Hurricane bawbag returns.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsiun8puk5o
nice chimney rebuild job for luton:
the debris on the street is from a block of flats behind:
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:25 pm
by GB_Groundworks
i remember this one teh roof was a problem when they were building it, didnt they have some lads up on the rough in semi hurricane then while the cameras where there, falls on the engineer and architect then builders to get it right.
there was a big feature in teh farmers guardian last week or week before about metal frame farm buildings being very poorly built and no quality control or building regs for them, a lot buckled in the snow last year as no web supports and thickening of the rsjs where the roof trusses bolted on. scarry to see big rsjs like that buckle and give way.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:52 pm
by Pablo
GB_Groundworks wrote:i remember this one teh roof was a problem when they were building it, didnt they have some lads up on the rough in semi hurricane then while the cameras where there, falls on the engineer and architect then builders to get it right.
It may well be designed to take a wind like that on the nose but I bet they never factored in that because it's on a slope the wind would be hitting it and rotoring upwards causing high pressre under it and low pressure on top of it. I can understand a roof stripping inland but on the west coast you get wind like that every few years so everythings built accordingly. What scares me the most is how much masonary has been falling in cities over the last few years especially from tenaments. These building have stood for years and taken far worse but probably due to age and lack of care are starting to let go. Seeing tons of stone falling from 6 stories up onto the pavement should be a serious wakeup call to the authorities. Most of these buildings are privately owned now and a lot of them have no management arrangements so the top floor pays for roof repairs because they own it and rarely do others chip in. They're are thousands of these buildings in scotland it's going to be a hell of a mess to sort it all out.
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:43 pm
by rab1
Edinburgh council has a thing in place where they inspect your flat/house or building and then specified the works to be carried out. started after a young oz lass was killed outside the rutland by falling masonry. the surveyors (council employed) are currently being investigated for fraud. 
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:22 am
by Carberry
rab1 wrote:Edinburgh council has a thing in place where they inspect your flat/house or building and then specified the works to be carried out. started after a young oz lass was killed outside the rutland by falling masonry. the surveyors (council employed) are currently being investigated for fraud.
Hopefully they get jail time. One of my customers has a shop on leith walk, the flats above them got with a statutory notice for to fix their leaking roof £175,000. They aren't even getting a brand new roof for that.