Diameter single story decahome.
Round house roof construction.
Built by a lake in nova scotia.
The turret projects from the front elevation and encloses a stairwell with semicircular mid level landings between floors.
30 types of roof trusses.
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All resting on a very strong self supporting roundwood reciprocal roof see here for the building history of this roundhouse to date.
In this article i ll explain how i tackled this complicated piece of framing.
Found underneath the downspout and used to transport the rainwater from the gutter in a direction away from the house.
Using this method to erect the first rafters no scaffolding is needed.
36 types of roofs.
The channel that transports rainwater from the gutter.
The half round tower opens into the first and second floors on the inside but it becomes full round construction where it penetrates the roof.
Round home kits round homes build with decahome frame kits.
Is sealed with a lapping 60 mil thermoplastic membrane having heat welded seams.
The decahome roof frame kit includes pre cut lvl rafers and purlins.
Round buildings use less wall floor and roof mate ri als to enclose the same square footage as a rec tan gu lar struc ture.
The low slope ten sided pyramid roof.
15 to 20 less mate r ial is used to cre ate the same square foot.
Parts of a roof truss.