[Greenbuilding] glass panels as porch roof?

[Clarke Olsen]

This is my salvaged 34"x76" patio door glass entry roof. I had to shell-out for extensions to put the drip line past the second stair going down to my shop.

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Clarke Olsen
clarkeolsendesign.com
373 route 203
Spencertown, NY 12165 
USA
518-392-4640
colsen at taconic.net

On Jan 11, 2014, at 3:37 PM, RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:20:18 -0500, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> long, narrow, low-pitched roof I'm designing (5'x35').
> 
>> the flat, double wall variety as opposed to the corrugated stuff.
> 
>> Any reason not to fasten it like one would a metal roof?
> 
> 
> For this application as well as the interior storms of Reuben's other query, my preference would be to use diverted-from-the-wastestream glass rather than plast-echhhh! ... especially new plast-eccchhh!.
> 
> For the porch roof, tempered glass salvaged from patio door insulating glass units (IGU) discarded due to failed edge seals would be ideal.The glass from three, 6-ft units would yield enough glass to roof-over the 35 foot porch (including eaves overhangs) and unlike the plast-echhh!, would last forever.
> 
> Plast-ecchhh! is a crud magnet and over time the fine grit in the crud will abrade the surface of the plast-ecccchh! further exacerbating its crud magnetism eventually making the plast-ecchhh! butt-ugly to the point of making the owners want to rip the stuff off and replace it.
> 
> If the plast-ecchhh! is going to be installed in a locale that experiences freezing temperatures and snow, I'd be very wary of using it for a porch roof that is subject to ice and snow falling off the main roof if it's a two-storey house.
> 
> Plast-ecchhh! in freezing temps tends to be especially brittle and highly likely to get cracked by sharp impact.
> 
> But enough dissing of plast-ecchhh!
> 
> Proper installation procedures for twin wall polycarbonate sheet is provided my manufacturers.
> ie  http://www.green-tek.com/Downloads/Polycarbonate/GT%20Thermaglas%20Tech%20&%20Install.pdf
> 
> (Note the necessity for pre-drilling of over-sized holes for through fasteners. Not following the recommendation will surely result in stress cracks at the fastener locations.)
> 
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> Rob Tom					AOD257
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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