Too wet for roof top terrace?

[Cagary]

If one has any potential for a view, it seems they build a lanai.

Is Puna just too wet for even a covered roof top terrace? Views could be had for both the mountains and ocean.

Even with the over head cover, rain would obviously get into the terrace, but couldn't drains be built into the floor to get rid of the water?

[John S. Rabi]

If your rof has enough overhang than you wouldn't get much rain into the roof top lanai. I don't know much about plumbing, but I assume a drainage could be built into the floor there, that I certainly would make tile.

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[Bullwinkle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow's_walk

some variant of this design with covered roof may be fun. I like the translucent light quality of that white fiberglass roofing - but when it gets old - yellow and itchy.

[Kelena]

There are at least two HPP, on the ocean. E-mail me for location. You can glimpse one at the website below. Click on the second picture.(It is kinda grayed out, but you can still see it).

There is another one down the street. Having seen both, I offer this advice based on my limited observation and my non-existent building skills: Don't put up a spiral metal ladder on the outside to access it. Make sure that any access to the observation area is protected and/or of non-metallic material (is on the interior for example or made of Trex or something similar). You will want a sufficient overhang.

http://www.vrbo.com/126622

[Carey]

There are a few homes with interesting upper terraces in HPP, along the water & out on the point, and in the Kehena, Kapoho & Kalapana areas there at a few, some with multiple terraces (the House of Cards not withstanding...), and some very large & interesting structures with multiple terraces along the Hamakua coast..

As Glen has noted, the main thing is how to get up to the terrace... either from inside or out... have seen examples of both

[Rene Siracusa]

I know of a house in Hamakua that has tile and drainage pukas - like scuppers on a boat. They say it works and have a nice ocean view tho' mauka of the highway.