Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Never buy these type of Houses! (Must Watch!)" video.
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Need to make one, small correction. When you say where there is little to no rain, than say, the west coast. Not true if you live in Oregon or Washington, on the west side of both states as it's often raining much of the time from October through early April before it begins to lessen up and dry out, which is only from late June/early July through early October. So flat roofs do not always do well here. Even in SoCal where it does not rain a lot, the roofs bake in the sun for days on end, and you won't know if it's potentially leaking until it actually rains.
There is a college not too far from where I live that was initially built in 1965, with subsequent buildings built in the next few years afterwards in the same, original Mansard Roof style. Some have been torn down and replaced with new, better designed buildings, others have been added onto (the library building, which was originally built in 1967) and others are much newer, and of those that were of the original set of buildings (built between 1965-1971 or so) several have been torn down and rebuilt and the college has also expanded with additional buildings since then, but none match the original Mansard style, and for good reason.
Roof issues with many of them, and thus were forced to tear down and rebuild. One recently was torn down as it had the roof redone a few years back, only to begin leaking again 2-3 years ago, so it became short term storage and last year, was down down to make way for a new building. All were/are single story, but all the newer structures are 3-4 stories, some with basements but took in our inclement weather in mind, especially during fall through early spring. Early on, without gutters, down spouts, it was a muddy mess due to rain pouring off the roofs through drain channels around the roof perimeter, pouring with gusto to the dirt below whenever it rains.
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@Ziegfried82 Yep. Not that I have flat roofs, but the college near me has them (built in the Mansard roof style popular in the mid to late 60's, if not the early 70's) and they have had problems with them, I think from the beginning when original campus was built in 1965, so now nearly 60 years old.
The architect should have known this as he's done at least one other building in the area that did get an award in the 50's. The area, Puget Sound where it rains a lot during the fall/early spring and not only did he used flat roofs, but he also used rain channels, instead of pipes so when it would rain, the rain would pout out of the openings and onto the ground, creating muddy puddles where there was no pavement, which was more the case when the campus was still fairly new. Several of the buildings have been torn down and rebuilt, others repurposed etc over time as the campus expanded. From the get go, it was a bad design by the fact that it was not built for our region and its weather.
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