beckygardener said:Is that part of the roof your friend is on? Concrete roof? I am interested to know more. Here we have framing (using wood) with plywood and shingles on the roof. How do you support a concrete roof so it doesn't cave in and fall down from the weight?
For the moment it's just wooden boards screwed onto wooden beams that are anchored in the wall with cement and covered with a roof cover on a basis of bitumen. It's just a temporary fix as I said until the new roof is installed. Then it'll be - with steel rods reinfored - concrete beams also anchored in the wall with cement. Between the beams clay pots (here we call them 'potten' litterally translated as pots :p ) are placed and on top of that concrete flooring is poured so the whole structure can adhere and is fixed in place: 
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