How to tie down a flat roof?

[Dub Thing]

I have a 8m-6m garage being built from 200m concrete block. The structure is having a flat roof that needs to be tied to the wall at 1500mm intervals. This is going to be ugly. Any suggestions to do this that won’t look so bad would be appreciated.

 

[Ian H]

With straps? Paint over them or put a shelf in front of them?

 

[noseall]

This is going to be ugly

We used to use tinsel until modern cosmetic enhancement took off.

 

[^woody^]

We did a job a couple of weeks ago for two nice chaps, and bizarrely they had a similar request. We came up with this.

 

[Dub Thing]

o dear

Its suddenly got like a classic VW forum I know.

I was hoping to get a bit of help with something that would look a bit better, somthing better must be used on old stone buildings

 

[Notch7]

o dear

Its suddenly got like a classic VW forum I know.

I was hoping to get a bit of help with something that would look a bit better, somthing better must be used on old stone buildings

I do know what you mean re the straps -they dont look all that nice.

The problem is they need to tie into a few rows of masonry.

 

[^woody^]

o dear

Its suddenly got like a classic VW forum I know.

I was hoping to get a bit of help with something that would look a bit better, somthing better must be used on old stone buildings

It's a garage! What do you expect the inside of a garage to look like with your classic VW parked inside? The Taj Mahal? Sydney Opera House? The Ritz? The Burj Khalifa?

 

[foxhole]

o dear

Its suddenly got like a classic VW forum I know.

I was hoping to get a bit of help with something that would look a bit better, somthing better must be used on old stone buildings

You don’t have an old stone building , they are normally hidden behind plasterboard , you could line the garage .

 

[Leofric]

Galvanised mild steel holding down straps on the inside face of a blockwork garage wall , what is wrong with that If you want to improve the appearance you could paint the blockwork and straps white .