This is becoming somewhat of an ordeal, 4 posts in and I haven't even gotten to the actual roofing part of one solitary side! This is the culmination of most of a week's progress of after work and all Saturday long.
My pile of scrap wood from this project is getting very large by now after stripping off some more of the old sheeting. I spent the whole evening sorting out this one cut, and didn't even get it fully finished.
This bottom piece is a bit tricky (for me at least, as a non-carpenter) because the seam actually switches from the new wood going over top of the other sheeting to going "under" it, as the very bottom of the new addition's overhand is lower than the end of the original house's framing.
Thursday I measured a little better, cut another 400 times or so, and got it sorted out.
That view illustrates a bit better what I mean, the valley transitions from the new sheet being secured overtop of the old sheet to having the old sheet be over top, or it would be if it was extended out a bit more. (Note also the board I secured up against the edging to help me line everything up straight)
With those tricky sheets out of the way, I turned my attention to the other end of the roof. Normally I'd just continue sheeting until I reached the other end of the roof but I'm modifying the roofline as I did on the other peak, and reinforcing it, also as I did on the other peak, and as with that peak, I'd like to have full 8' sheets on the end to help strengthen the overhang. Just to remind you, this is the abomination of a roofline that I presently have.
It sags because it has zero reinforcement and it's got the weird out of square longer at the peak thing that I hate going on.
It's once again demo time to get rid of that and rebuild it properly.
Normally when framing up a roof, you stop putting in rafters 2 from the end, and build sticks that extend out past the wall to get your overhang and maintain some strength. The outside wall is framed as a support underneath of the extended boards and you end up with a strong and proper overhang. The people that built the addition did not do that, they framed regular rafters right to the outer wall, just like the original house was; however the original house was built with a ridge board. This addition was framed without a ridge board. That means unlike the last peak, there is absolutely nothing to use as support at the peak.
I trimmed down the last two rafters to accept a ridge board between them and cut some 2x6s to use as a support for the ridge board as it extends out. Those 2x6s sit on a piece of 1/2 plywood and then a 2x4 on the flat with cripple studs under that was part of the original framing. This got me the exact spacing I needed to have the ridge board square and supported. In place this is how it looks from the ground.
On the third rafter back, I trimmed a piece of 2x6 down and butted the new ridge board up against it.
As with the other peak, once I mounted the new ridge board I twinned the extension for a little extra strength and also astethic consistency. That out of the way, I trimmed a corner off a 2x4 so it wouldn't interfere with the stucco and tossed it up flat against the house as I did on the other peak.
So close to final roofline. After measuring that the other overhang I built was 14" I cut 2 more 2x6s, fastened one to the 2x4 as before to give backing for the eventual soffit, and fastened the final board 14" off the stucco.
OH YEAH BABY, ROOFLINE SECURED, back to sheeting. Clear that old garbage off.
Felt so good to get the boards that had the sharp ends of nails poking upwards finally off the roof.
Once it came time to get the top right most sheet in, there was a small amount of prep to do on the ridge board, first, as with the other peak, a quick trim of the twinned board.
And then to finalize the structure, I installed a couple of 2x6 joist hangers, upside down as any load on the ridge board will pivot on the fulcrum made from the 2x6s in the outside wall and attempt to lift up.
That was the last thing to do before I was able to fully sheet this entire side of the roof, here's the money shot.
Nearly a month and a half from when I tore the cedar shakes and shingles off and the roof looked like this
I now have an intact, sturdy, and square roof, or one side of it anyways. The difference is night and day. With a trip to the hardware store for some supplies that cost $440 I'm into the renovation for $4500 to date.
Tuesday I finally got a chance to start sheeting the addition.
I did my best with it and by this point it was getting late and the bugs drove me off the roof. I tossed a single screw in and re tarped it up again.
That was the toughest sheet to put up, and with it sorted out, the other two for the valley were relatively trivial.
Well, time to cut some rafters and install a ridge board at least at the end.
With them out of the way, getting sheeting stared again was more or less trivial.
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