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An $800,000 Toronto home is literally held together by wires
Unless you're an architect or in the process of building a house, most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about how houses stay upright.Sure, you have a general idea of foundations, supporting walls, joists, beams, and roofs, etc. But once it's all behind drywall, it's kind of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing. The main floor. However, at 1305 Woodbine Ave., you can't forget about how the house is still standing. The view from the front entrance. In the main living space of this two-bedroom, two-bathroom bungalow, several steel cables span the entire width of the home. A large island in the kitchen is great for entertaining. At first glance, you might mistake them for curtain wire or a clothesline, but nope, those cables are what's holding the cathedral roof up.The dining room. Typically, roofs in residential construction use wood framing but you can use cable trusses to bear the load of the roof. The living room. The te...
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