Recent content by GirlNeedsGarage

I have a huge slate book and I believe I read not to use plywood or osb under slate. I know a lot of preservationists/contractors who only work on old houses and I doubt any of them would use either of those products for a slate roof. My house is 103 years old and when we did the roof tear off...

Thanks. I added my location. I rebuilt the roof structure of my porch (10x25 gable) before having the slate installed a few years ago. Replaced some rafters and re-decked the entire thing. I used 1x8 boards, like they originally used 100 yrs ago, with a small expansion joint between. Grace ice...

Yeah I've come to the same conclusion at this point, just start over. Even if the walls were tall enough, the fact that I would have to make them 12" oc would mean buying those studs for in between plus enough roofing rafters for 12" oc rather than 16". I think it'd end up being more expensive...

Like I said, I was planning on completely restructuring the roof anyway, with a steeper pitch to allow for an attic storage space. So there was no issue with the slate. I already have 4 pallets of real Vermont slate ready to go. The issue is just with the walls being too short and being on 24"...

I am trying to add pics that I have stored in google photos but they just keep coming up as broken links. I have share settings formatted correctly on the google albums so I don't know what the problem is. I did just read IRC codes...

Hello, I'm brand new here. Go easy on me. I have a historic 103-year-old house that I am restoring. Unfortunately, I have a POS garage from the 1990s to go with it. The garage wasn't even built to code, as far as I can tell (no man door for starters which I know is code here). I'm near...