Do builders have knee braces all of their very own? Well they do, but they are not what you think! These knee braces fulfill an entirely different purpose.
Of course if you mention the word “knee brace” to an architect that brings up whole different kettle of fish: and it has nothing to do with builders knee. Of course if one imagines the standard type of prophylactic knee brace or indeed the functional knee brace in conjunction with the idea of a house, perhaps one might produce an image in one’s mind of some fantastical construction: somewhat along the lines of the Russian folk tale of the witch Baba Yaga. Here the wicked old dame lived in a house that bounded along on the giant chicken legs.
