It's been a couple weeks since I did much work to the house, I was able to take advantage of the warm weather to get some camping in with my family which was truly wonderful, but fall is looming so it's high time to get a functional roof, and the weekend means a full 2 days to tear into things.
The jank temporary filler pieces did a great job and the house didn't get wet inside during the intervening weeks' rainstorms.
Anyway, after unwrapping that like the world's worst Christmas present it was time to take stock and make a plan.
First things first, it was time to strip away all the old poorly done work so I can redo it properly.
The 3 leftmost rafters (including the one above the exterior wall) need to be replaced, and a ridge board needs to be put in as the addition, including the old valley, was framed without a ridge board. This isn't a structural problem, but a ridge board will make framing the new valley much, much easier.
I also cut back the old tin and exposed the original section's ridge board. Then with my friend Mr sawzall I trimmed back the front section's rafters to make room for my new ridge board.
It was in rough shape, but after drying out, MOST of it was still intact, so I figured I'd leave it in place. That said, in the past it had gotten wet and a little rotten at the bottom, so it got the same treatment as the boards below it. A scrub down, and some of the wood treatment.
That prepped and ready to be against new wood, I tossed another 2x6 beside it.
You can see the ridge board I put in for framing up the new valley, and if you look closely, the string line I stretched across the roof to align it, as well as the new twinned rafter on the right.
The two 2x6s screwed across are just temporary alignment boards for the new rafters as well as the final outer one.
They look a lot better now that they have dried out for a month or so, but there was no coming back from the rot they have. Still, good templates for the new ones.
Next up was two more boards outside the house. The addition was built with 2x6 rafters, so the edge of it has 2x6s, to keep some aesthetic consistency, I elected to make the edges of this section of roof also 2x6, even though the rafters themselves are 2x4. To this end I added yet one more board to my stack of 3+ship lap on the outside wall to use as backing for the eventual soffit and then, using my handy alignment boards I mentioned earlier, secured the final outer board for this section of roof. The old roof had a sort of trapezoidal soffit where the peaks extended further out than the valleys. It's not my taste so I squared it all up with the end of the addition's 2x6 rafters. When the time comes to do the other section I'll match it and trim the end boards that stick out past where the roof is now.
At this point mother nature stopped cooperating and I had to tarp everything up for a storm, during which I hooked up my washer/dryer (a story for another post). Once it all cleared up, I got it untarped again and twinned the rafter under the ridge board (far right) and twinned the rotten bottom parts of the rafters (bottom).
At this point, it was after 9PM and I don't think my neighbours would appreciate hearing me operate power tools much later, so I tossed my sheets of plywood over to fill the gaps in and tarped it up for the night in case it decided to storm again.
The only additional cost for the roof today was 1x 12' 2x6 and a Makita corded circular saw as I decided to stop taking advantage of my friend's generosity lending me his. That brings me to $2380 for the reno so far. Starting to make real progress.
The house was still tarped up from pt.1 when I tore everything apart and found my support wall issues.
With the new ridge board in place, I did some prep to twin the first rafter in the addition.
Next up, it was time to start repairing the water damaged rafters. I cut the rot out of the end one that was above the exterior wall and twinned it on both the inside right next to it as well as the outside, on the other side of the ship lap that made up the exterior sheathing. I also hammered out the two other damaged rafters completely.
Here you can see the 4 new rafters.
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