Joseph Eichler built numerous flat roofed housing tracts in California. Most
are rather ugly from the street typically looking like a garage door and a
fence but they have huge windows in the back that make you feel almost like
being outside without the bugs. It seems most people either love them or
hate them. Very few in the middle. I doubt they would stand up to any
significant amount of snow. It's very easy to walk around on the roof to get
the leaves off. They hold up surprisingly well to earthquakes given the
number of floor to ceiling windows they typically have.
Jeff Keller
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From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: Re: [OM] Henderson House Fire
Yes, it certainly looked like a flat-roofed building (seen best in photo
#6). However, it would be extremely unlikely to have a flat-roofed
house in the Las Vegas area (or most anywhere in the US) as you can
readily see from the surrounding houses. Given the apparently flat roof
and adjacent trailers I thought it might have been a temporary building
used as the construction office of this relatively new and yet
unfinished housing development. However, the newspaper reported it as a
"house fire". Of course, newspapers are never wrong in their reporting.
:-)
Given the state of the housing market in the Las Vegas area I suspect
the insurance company will be doing some very thorough investigation
before paying off.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/21/2010 9:12 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> A great series of shots. I presume it was a flat roof?
>
> I hate flat roofs; nothing but trouble.
>
> I must review our fire-protection stuff here.
>
> Brian Swale.
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