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There's nothing wrong with having long eaves if that's your preference; I'm just pointing out that there are a lot of factors that go in to building a long-lasting structure, and the answer to most questions around best practices is "it depends."

If you have a two-storey house in a wet area that gets a lot of storm activity coming from the northeast, for example, and you have an exposed northeast-facing wall, the eaves aren't going to do much to shield that wall from driving rain. You'd have to make sure it's dealt with in other ways.

> Here's another one. Run the plumbing up interior walls. Then it won't freeze.

Same with this - it might be good advice in Seattle, but if I told a local builder to worry about frost mitigation where I live now (Singapore) they'd probably question my sanity.

>>cultur+(OP)
> might be good advice in Seattle, but if I told a local builder to worry about frost mitigation where I live now (Singapore) they'd probably question my sanity

Texas felt the same way until February!

>>hdctam+T4
Singapore sits basically on the equator and the lowest recorded temperature ever was 66F, so if we somehow make it below freezing then something catastrophic has happened to the earth and plumbing would be the least of our problems.

>>hdctam+T4
> Texas felt the same way until February!

And I have a friend who lives in Texas. The pipes in the outer walls froze and burst, the ones in the inner walls did not.

>>cultur+(OP)
> it might be good advice in Seattle

Jeez, of course one pays attention to the local climate. I don't worry about tornadoes in Seattle, but would if in the midwest.

>>Walter+xn
> Jeez, of course one pays attention to the local climate.

Believe it or not, this kind of thing isn't just immediately obvious to everyone.