We were so excited to see the trusses going on, the outlines of our house are complete!
We were surprised though, that the eaves did not extend further. We had talked with the draftsman when he turned our floor plan into architectural drawings about having a 2.4 metre verandah out the front, to have a nice wide deck for entertaining, but there were issues with minimum heights, so he suggested a narrower canter levered verandah to get posts out of the way of the full width deck. So we agreed (I thought) on 1.8metre eaves all around. The trusses went up, and the eaves are only 1.2m wide, which is just what the plans say - we just hadn’t noticed that The plans were different there than we expected.
Fire proofing as much as possible is a high priority here. The recently harvested plantation right behind us being cleared by fire gave is a taste of flames up even closer than the Tahune fires last year.
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