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Gober, TX
 
I'm always amazed how many of these old buildings have flat roofs. It just seems to me they invited leaks with no pitch to create runoff.
 
kurt said:
I'm always amazed how many of these old buildings have flat roofs. It just seems to me they invited leaks with no pitch to create runoff.
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If it's flat enough, water runs off just fine. Basically as long as you don't have dips. The need for a slope is really for ice and snow.

As far as those old flat roofs go, when you got a leak, you would shim up the roof deck in that spot, or shore up the joists, whichever you needed, then just tar the heck out of the spot on top to get rid of the dip.
 
bmcdonau said:
If I took a picture of everything I wanted to I wouldn't get very far at all.
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I drove around Crater Lake, OR, once. Stopped every time I saw something "pretty" or "scenic". Took me several hours and over 200 photo's. That was using 35mm film too.

With old buildings that are in towns close to home I tend to tell myself I'll be back again and take a pic then. Drive by it again at a later time and think the same thing.
 
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