From: howdHol@yaooho.com   
      
   John Halpenny  wrote   
      
   >> Accounts pop up of things like concrete that lacked enough   
   >> reinforcement, skylights that weren't square and were pitched to send   
   >> water toward the inside of the roof instead of outward. It sounds   
   >> like he tended to ignore little details that mattered, like managing   
   >> how roofs met chimneys or creating vestibules for keeping things from   
   >> crossing into the house.   
   >   
   > He did like flat roofs, which were not common in those days, and   
   > possibly few builders knew how to seal them well.   
      
   Hey, welcome back. How's England these days?   
      
   Parts of the US have a lot of rowhouses with flat roofs on the same   
   model as rowhouses in England, but as I'm sure you know the big   
   difference is they're pitched with the street side a few feet higher   
   than the back, so the rain drains off pretty quickly. Frank Lloyd Wright   
   designed a lot of flat roofs that weren't angled, and the drainage was a   
   mess as a result.   
      
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