“A perfectly flat roof permits up to 50 percent more heat gain that a pitched roof… This illustrates the failure of the flat-roof construction to get natural, hot air flow out from under the eaves.”
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Ken Kern
The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
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