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		UltraSane 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place The only limit to how strong you can make a roof is really money. If you space joists or trusses half as far apart you will about double the max snow load.

derefr 1 day ago [–]

At a certain point the problem stops being the roof, and starts being subsidence of the ground under the increasingly-heavy building.

UltraSane 1 day ago | [–]

That would be a LOT of snow.

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