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Old 07-03-2020, 06:12 AM
appiice (Ed)
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Hello David and Carl

Good luck on your build, you won't regret the ease that you can be up and using the scope when it is finished.

Just one negative comment, the idea of a 1 degree slope to help water drain away sounds like a plan...…. for a potting shed.

If you build your structure with care ( and skill ), including grading the land around the structure you don't need any fall on the floor for water run off.

For example, I am a licensed builder, can I build you a house with a fall so any water entering your home will run out the other end? Your 1 degree fall ( 18mm of drop over 1 meter of run ) over an average house width of say, 15m is 270mm, going to look pretty good from the front!

Bit extreme, yes but if the slab is above the finished grade, and the roof does not leak, why would you want to allow for water entering the dwelling, I would rather keep my scope and all the electronic stuff in my Obs dry to start with.

Ed
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