A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 397
relyname one of its characteristics. A fiat roof is one wherethere is but a slight pitch, or slant, to its timbers, just suffi-cient to cause the water to run to its lower edge, which iscalled the eaA^es. The amount of pitch usually given to a flat roof varies from\ inch to 3 inches to a foot,… … Fig. 44. This kind of an enclosure isusually built against the side ofanother structure, already erected—hence its name Ican-to—and itsroof often has to receive and carrythe drip from the main roof above,as well as its own collection of moistiire. The single-pitchroof, however, is also frequently…
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