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I hope your job is faster than mine!

We planned to just re-roof a small shop area next to the garage and my office. That was before the bee hive was found in the eves. The only way to fix it was to demo the old ledger roof and tag on to the old roof and sister on new rafters. Here's the view from inside the garage where 2x6s were cut to fit to the old 2x4s with C cuts to sit on the old top plate.





This is the result with new T&G starter board instead of ugly chip board. In fact, the whole roof was run with plywood without starter board, so all of it had to be cut back and replaced.





Of course, a lot of the fascia was dry rotted, so we replaced most of that and realized that one side wasn't even close to level and had a hump in the middle of nearly 2 inches. It's no wonder why it looked like a rainbow. So, we took off more plywood and planed the tails to get it close and put up mostly new fascia, about half of the old was ok.





Do you know how much shingles weigh? Our roughly 1,500 sq ft roof had been shingled over once, so the two layers took two dump runs at nearly 5,000 pounds in total. I sure was wishing for a dump trailer after unloading those loads at the dump.

Thankfully, there's no rain on the horizon as we're into this a couple weeks and the new roofing material doesn't come until Monday.

-Rod


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