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    Roof purlins don't go into the walls?!?

    Thanks for your help so far. The 2 posts are sitting on some wooden lengths that are running across the joists. These wooden lengths are not above any walls or supporting part of the structure. The posts are at (and towards) one end of the purlin that does not go into the wall at either end...
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    Roof purlins don't go into the walls?!?

    Here are some pics. Clearly the first thing is to clear out all the crap the previous owners left us :)
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    Roof purlins don't go into the walls?!?

    Thanks for the quick reply. I'll get some pics of our roof first thing in the morning. Unfortunately, I don't have pics from down the road and it's all covered with plastic now When it fell in it looked like the main beam at the roof peak had either given way at one end or come away from the...
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    Roof purlins don't go into the walls?!?

    Hi all, We live in an 1890's mid terrace. All the houses in the area used to be slate rooves but we're all at some stage changed to normal tiles which are obviously heavier. Recently one of the houses down the road had there whole roof fall in which has got everyone panicking. Our roof is...
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