Saturday, June 23, 2007
Roofer
When it rained hard, our porch roof would leak. I finally got around to looking into the problem last Friday.
So I got the ladder out and inspected the roof. Yep. A bit soft over here. I'm guessing it's just due to rot.
After ripping off the shingles and the first strip of OSB, this is what I found..
Upon first inspection this looks pretty bad, but when I tore off the inner roof I saw the BIGGER problem.
See those old boards.. On the front side they are sitting on a support. On the side near the house they are sitting on NOTHING. They are held in place by sitting against the angled siding. Across the entire 16' length there where two 2x2 support. WTF.
So my day project turned into a still not done project a week later. That's with taking off two days of work! I never take days off of work. Bah.
It has been an interesting build so far since after I realized that nothing was holding the roof up.. I was not going to walk on it again. This meant I had to tear the roof down while I was building the new roof across! Bah2.
At this point I have the old outer roof ripped down with inner roof intact. I've framed most of the way across and there is some OSB up there to protect from the rain.
Oh.. Did I mention that it keeps raining here. Oooh.
If I get a decent amount of time to work on this tomorrow it should be framed and skinned by the end of the day. I've never done shingle work before, but Jason has and he can help me pick out what I need.
So I got the ladder out and inspected the roof. Yep. A bit soft over here. I'm guessing it's just due to rot.
After ripping off the shingles and the first strip of OSB, this is what I found..
Upon first inspection this looks pretty bad, but when I tore off the inner roof I saw the BIGGER problem.
See those old boards.. On the front side they are sitting on a support. On the side near the house they are sitting on NOTHING. They are held in place by sitting against the angled siding. Across the entire 16' length there where two 2x2 support. WTF.
So my day project turned into a still not done project a week later. That's with taking off two days of work! I never take days off of work. Bah.
It has been an interesting build so far since after I realized that nothing was holding the roof up.. I was not going to walk on it again. This meant I had to tear the roof down while I was building the new roof across! Bah2.
At this point I have the old outer roof ripped down with inner roof intact. I've framed most of the way across and there is some OSB up there to protect from the rain.
Oh.. Did I mention that it keeps raining here. Oooh.
If I get a decent amount of time to work on this tomorrow it should be framed and skinned by the end of the day. I've never done shingle work before, but Jason has and he can help me pick out what I need.
# posted by billyzelsnack @ 8:47 PM 
