Recent content by John McClane

Yea, it’s hard not to wonder why they didn’t just align the rafters with the joists. 🤦‍♂️

Awesome idea. Thanks for this reply!

Thanks guys! Appreciate the feedback

It’s hard to see in photos but I have marks pointing toward where the depressions are. Doesn’t seem to be much sediment collecting there so I think the water is still moving off but it’s noticeable still.

Yes and yes. No overhang. I got a new roof installed a couple of years ago, and I’m theorizing that is when some of these rafter supports failed/cracked (when the roofing team was on top). I like this idea! My only concern is if the rafter supports collapsed recently (when the roof was...

It’s looking sagging/flat just before the dripline in the most compromised areas.

Definitely my first thought! But I live in a hurricane-prone area…so disaster could be one storm away. 🙈

It’s not the easiest area to work in, but I would be able to do it. Lifting the collapsed rafters and adding blocking between them/the plank and the top plate was my first impulse…but I was wondering if rafters should always be married to a joist.

Almost all of them. About 80% length of the house. The joists run perpendicular above the very front room of the house, and there is a double plate under the rafters in that section.

I have an old house built in 1886. The only way to access the attic is from the roof, so I just got up in there for the first time. I’m not a carpenter, but I found what looks to be some alarming structural issues. The rafters aren’t married to the joists and they don’t connect to the top...