diff --git a/demo/smoke_near_orthogonal_junction.mjs b/demo/smoke_near_orthogonal_junction.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f70a768f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demo/smoke_near_orthogonal_junction.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+/** Issue #279: the exact near-orthogonal T keeps every finite incident strip. */
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { launch, checkAll, finish } from './serve.mjs';
+
+const fixture = JSON.parse(readFileSync(
+  new URL('../test/fixtures/279-near-orthogonal-junction.json', import.meta.url), 'utf8',
+));
+const { page, browser } = await launch({ width: 1000, height: 760 }, 1);
+
+const result = await page.evaluate(async (source) => {
+  const card = window.__card;
+  const root = () => card.shadowRoot || card.renderRoot;
+  const frame = () => new Promise((done) =>
+    requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(done)));
+  const settle = async () => {
+    await card.updateComplete;
+    while (card._modeTransitionBusy) await frame();
+    await frame();
+  };
+  const update = async (structural = false) => {
+    if (structural) {
+      card._cfgEpoch++;
+      card._modelCache = null;
+      card._frame = null;
+      card._wallUnionCache = null;
+      card._physicalBodiesCache = null;
+      card._lightBarrierCache = null;
+      card._isoGeometryCache.clear();
+    }
+    card.requestUpdate();
+    await settle();
+  };
+  const space = {
+    id: 'issue-279',
+    title: 'Issue 279',
+    cell_cm: source.cell_cm,
+    view_box: [-1.8, 1.95, 3, 2.05],
+    rooms: structuredClone(source.rooms),
+    walls: structuredClone(source.walls),
+    settings: { show_borders: true, fill_mode: 'none' },
+  };
+  card._serverCfg = {
+    ...structuredClone(card._serverCfg), spaces: [space], markers: [],
+  };
+  card._layout = {};
+  card._space = space.id;
+  card._setMode('plan');
+  card._tool = 'select';
+  await update(true);
+
+  const persisted = JSON.stringify(card._serverCfg.spaces[0]);
+  const node = source.node.map((value) => value * 1000);
+  const halfDepth = (20 / source.cell_cm) * (1000 / 240) / 2;
+  const incident = source.walls.map((wall) => {
+    const other = Math.hypot(wall.a[0] - source.node[0], wall.a[1] - source.node[1])
+      > 1e-8 ? wall.a : wall.b;
+    const dx = other[0] * 1000 - node[0];
+    const dy = other[1] * 1000 - node[1];
+    const length = Math.hypot(dx, dy);
+    return { u: [dx / length, dy / length], length };
+  });
+  const missingSamples = (path) => {
+    let missing = 0;
+    for (const ray of incident) {
+      const n = [-ray.u[1], ray.u[0]];
+      for (let t = 3; t <= Math.min(100, ray.length - 3); t += 3) {
+        for (let cross = -halfDepth + 3; cross <= halfDepth - 3; cross += 3) {
+          const point = new DOMPoint(
+            node[0] + ray.u[0] * t + n[0] * cross,
+            node[1] + ray.u[1] * t + n[1] * cross,
+          );
+          if (!path?.isPointInFill?.(point)) missing++;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return missing;
+  };
+
+  const planPath = root().querySelector('[data-hp="wall"]');
+  const planD = planPath?.getAttribute('d') || '';
+  const out = {
+    planHasCanonicalWall: !!planD,
+    planKeepsEveryIncidentSample: missingSamples(planPath) === 0,
+    renderNeverWritesConfig: JSON.stringify(card._serverCfg.spaces[0]) === persisted,
+  };
+  card._setMode('view');
+  await update(false);
+  const viewPath = root().querySelector('[data-hp="wall"]');
+  out.viewMatchesPlan = viewPath?.getAttribute('d') === planD;
+  out.viewKeepsEveryIncidentSample = missingSamples(viewPath) === 0;
+  return out;
+}, fixture);
+
+checkAll(result);
+await finish(browser, result);
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index d7aa1ff5..42ea8761 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- A nearly perpendicular T-junction now preserves all physical masonry when
+  its saved axis has a small valid slope. The two white wedges disappear in
+  every mode without straightening stored coordinates, while deliberately
+  diagonal bevels stay bounded
+  ([#279](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/279)).
+
 ## v1.67.0-beta.8 — 2026-08-24
 
 - A local wall-union failure can no longer blank the masonry of an entire
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md
index 6077d5ed..fe9428f5 100755
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 
 ## Не выпущено
 
+- Почти перпендикулярный T-стык теперь сохраняет всю реальную кладку при
+  небольшом допустимом уклоне оси. Два белых клина исчезают во всех режимах,
+  сохранённые координаты не выпрямляются, а явно диагональная фаска остаётся
+  ограниченной ([#279](https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card/issues/279)).
+
 ## v1.67.0-beta.8 — 2026-08-24
 
 - Локальный сбой объединения стен больше не скрывает кладку всего пространства.
diff --git a/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md b/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md
index 6ba29b87..fa04f57d 100644
--- a/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md
+++ b/docs/WALL-THICKNESS.md
@@ -135,7 +135,10 @@ Exterior connectivity alone is not sufficient (#275). At a degree-3+ node,
 every finite ray that has a perpendicular partner owns its complete physical
 strip through the local repair window. The effective bevel cut excludes the
 union of those protected strips, then the reconstruction unions them back as a
-boolean fail-safe. Rays are classified pair by pair: a diagonal ray in a mixed
+boolean fail-safe. A pair remains physically near-orthogonal when its angular
+deviation from 90° is at most `0.25°` (#279); this small drafting tolerance is
+independent of `cell_cm` and does not rewrite the saved axes. Rays are
+classified pair by pair: a diagonal ray in a mixed
 orthogonal/diagonal node remains subject to the bounded #249 bevel unless it
 has its own perpendicular partner. The non-orthogonal #249 fixture therefore
 keeps its approved empty wedge. Protected strips are unioned once for the
diff --git a/src/wall-thickness.ts b/src/wall-thickness.ts
index 1cfea8e5..d6545551 100644
--- a/src/wall-thickness.ts
+++ b/src/wall-thickness.ts
@@ -80,8 +80,13 @@ export const MITRE_LIMIT = 4;
 /** Multi-ray joins stay inside this × the largest incident half-depth (#249). */
 export const MULTI_WALL_JOIN_LIMIT = 1.25;
 
-/** Normalized dot-product tolerance for a physically orthogonal ray pair. */
-export const MULTI_WALL_ORTHOGONAL_DOT_EPSILON = 1e-9;
+/** Maximum drafting deviation still rendered as a physical T/X junction (#279). */
+export const MULTI_WALL_NEAR_ORTHOGONAL_MAX_DEGREES = 0.25;
+
+/** Normalized dot-product tolerance for a physically near-orthogonal ray pair. */
+export const MULTI_WALL_ORTHOGONAL_DOT_EPSILON = Math.sin(
+  MULTI_WALL_NEAR_ORTHOGONAL_MAX_DEGREES * Math.PI / 180,
+);
 
 export interface MultiWallNodeRaySupport {
   /** Physical half-depth owned by this finite co-directional interval. */
diff --git a/test/fixtures/279-near-orthogonal-junction.json b/test/fixtures/279-near-orthogonal-junction.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..303ea85d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/279-near-orthogonal-junction.json
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{
+  "cell_cm": 1,
+  "node": [-0.354166667, 2.954166667],
+  "rooms": [
+    {
+      "id": "north-west",
+      "poly": [
+        [-1.670833333, 3.866666667],
+        [-1.670833333, 2.95],
+        [-0.354166667, 2.954166667],
+        [-0.354166667, 3.866666667]
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "south-west",
+      "poly": [
+        [-1.670833333, 2.95],
+        [-1.670833333, 2.0875],
+        [-0.354166667, 2.0875],
+        [-0.354166667, 2.954166667]
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "east",
+      "poly": [
+        [-0.354166667, 2.954166667],
+        [-0.354166667, 2.2875],
+        [1.058333333, 2.2875],
+        [1.058333333, 3.866666667],
+        [-0.354166667, 3.866666667]
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "walls": [
+    {
+      "key": "-1.012500,2.954167@0.0033",
+      "a": [-1.670833333, 2.95],
+      "b": [-0.354166667, 2.954166667],
+      "cm": 20
+    },
+    {
+      "key": "-0.354167,2.620833@1.5706",
+      "a": [-0.354166667, 2.2875],
+      "b": [-0.354166667, 2.954166667],
+      "cm": 20
+    },
+    {
+      "key": "-0.354167,3.410417@1.5706",
+      "a": [-0.354166667, 2.954166667],
+      "b": [-0.354166667, 3.866666667],
+      "cm": 20
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/test/wall-thickness.test.mjs b/test/wall-thickness.test.mjs
index d6fb25d7..b03c226e 100644
--- a/test/wall-thickness.test.mjs
+++ b/test/wall-thickness.test.mjs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   innerContourForRoom, innerEdgeSpan, ownEdgeOffsets,
   paperRoomShapesWithWalls, WALL_MIN_CM, WALL_MAX_CM, MITRE_LIMIT,
   MULTI_WALL_JOIN_LIMIT, buildMultiWallNodeMap, multiWallBevelTriangles,
+  MULTI_WALL_NEAR_ORTHOGONAL_MAX_DEGREES,
   MULTI_WALL_ORTHOGONAL_DOT_EPSILON, multiWallProtectedRayIndexes,
   multiWallProtectedStripGeometry,
   atomicPolyForRoom, insetOffsetsForRoom, wallIntervals, materializeWallIntervals,
@@ -1079,6 +1080,88 @@ test('issue #275 classifies orthogonal rays by pair, including mixed-node and ep
   );
 });
 
+test('issue #279 protects the exact near-orthogonal T without changing #249', () => {
+  const fixture = JSON.parse(readFileSync(
+    new URL('./fixtures/279-near-orthogonal-junction.json', import.meta.url), 'utf8',
+  ));
+  const rooms = fixture.rooms.map((room) => ({
+    ...room,
+    poly: room.poly.map(([x, y]) => [x * NORM_W, y * NORM_W]),
+  }));
+  let walls = [];
+  for (const wall of fixture.walls) {
+    walls = setWallThickness(
+      walls,
+      wall.a.map((value) => value * NORM_W),
+      wall.b.map((value) => value * NORM_W),
+      wall.cm,
+      pitch,
+      NORM_W,
+    );
+  }
+  const map = buildMultiWallNodeMap(
+    wallIntervals(rooms, walls, [], pitch, fixture.cell_cm, GRID_PITCH, NORM_W),
+    pitch * NORM_W * 0.04 * 4,
+    NORM_W,
+  );
+  const expectedNode = fixture.node.map((value) => value * NORM_W);
+  const node = map.nodes.find((candidate) => Math.hypot(
+    candidate.point[0] - expectedNode[0], candidate.point[1] - expectedNode[1],
+  ) <= map.epsilon);
+  assert.ok(node, 'the exact beta.8 junction disappeared');
+  assert.equal(node.rays.length, 3);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    multiWallProtectedRayIndexes(node, 1e-9),
+    [],
+    'the fixture must still reproduce the strict-dot regression',
+  );
+  assert.deepEqual(multiWallProtectedRayIndexes(node), [0, 1, 2]);
+
+  const protectedStrips = multiWallProtectedStripGeometry(node, map);
+  const geometry = wallBodiesGeometry(
+    rooms, walls, [], [], pitch, fixture.cell_cm, GRID_PITCH, NORM_W,
+  );
+  assert.ok(protectedStrips && geometry);
+  closeTo(geometryDifferenceArea(protectedStrips, geometry.roomGeom), 0, 1e-6);
+  closeTo(geometryDifferenceArea(protectedStrips, geometry.geom), 0, 1e-6);
+  for (const ray of node.rays) {
+    assertProbeInside(geometry.geom, [
+      node.point[0] + ray.u[0] * node.halfDepth * 2,
+      node.point[1] + ray.u[1] * node.halfDepth * 2,
+    ], 'a near-orthogonal arm detached from the junction');
+  }
+});
+
+test('issue #279 near-orthogonal boundary is explicit, mirrored and bounded', () => {
+  const ray = (degrees) => {
+    const radians = degrees * Math.PI / 180;
+    return {
+      u: [Math.cos(radians), Math.sin(radians)],
+      halfDepth: 5,
+      length: 100,
+      supports: [{ halfDepth: 5, length: 100 }],
+    };
+  };
+  const node = (deviation) => ({
+    point: [0, 0],
+    rays: [ray(0), ray(90 + deviation), ray(180)],
+    halfDepth: 5,
+    limit: 5 * MULTI_WALL_JOIN_LIMIT,
+  });
+  const inside = MULTI_WALL_NEAR_ORTHOGONAL_MAX_DEGREES - 1e-6;
+  const outside = MULTI_WALL_NEAR_ORTHOGONAL_MAX_DEGREES + 1e-6;
+  for (const deviation of [0, 0.181315, -0.181315, inside, -inside]) {
+    assert.deepEqual(multiWallProtectedRayIndexes(node(deviation)), [0, 1, 2]);
+  }
+  for (const deviation of [outside, -outside, 1, -1]) {
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      multiWallProtectedRayIndexes(node(deviation)),
+      [],
+      `${deviation} degrees must retain the bounded non-orthogonal bevel`,
+    );
+  }
+});
+
 test('issue #271 keeps finite co-directional ray supports and never rebuilds past an endpoint', () => {
   const interval = (key, b, half) => ({
     roomId: key, a: [0, 0], b, key, kind: 'outer', cm: half * 2,