Moreover a flat roof is a poor choice for a location with harsh winter and much snow.
Roof wall design with cement.
But today we will review the most trendy modern concrete flat roof house plans.
Each home was designed and constructed using an icf wall system and lite deck icf roof system.
Figure 4 shows a typical roof truss anchor cast into the bond beam of a concrete masonry bearing wall.
The two homes with longer spans required 10 lite deck system the two shorter spans used 6 lite deck.
Concrete weighs a lot and the outside walls have to be capable of supporting the giant slab.
For this reason adding a concrete roof onto a wood.
Three of the homes featured a gable roof design one a hip design.
Sufficiently waterproof concrete can be achieved and is regularly used for water tanks ships pipe and more.
Near airports these icf roofs have proven to dramatically reduce sound infiltration.
But just because a home has a concrete roof doesn t mean that it has to be flat.
For an exposed concrete roof installation it is recommended that a competent concrete mix design consultant or concrete supplier be engaged to assist in the development of the concrete mix to be used.
Due to the features of the design it would be extremely hard for this house to withstand the vagaries of the weather and heavy rain snowfall.
The required anchor load capacity depends on the design wind speed as well as the roof truss span.