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Re: Rafter and ridge issues- shed dormer
Adam,
From what you are describing (as I visualize it in my mind) - you do have a problem, make that several problems.
I would not bother with the home inspector in this case, I would do what a qualified home inspector would recommend you to do - call a structural engineer.
Have a structural engineer come out and look it over, they may (after seeing it first hand) be able to come up with a simple solution where the solution looks to be larger for us who have not seen it.
Do this before the inspector comes out, make the corrections the structural engineer says to make, and the, when the inspector comes out, hand him/her the structural engineers letter stating two things:
1) 'This is what needs to be done.'
2) 'The work was done in accordance with the engineering design.'
The latter 2) is more important than the former 1) - no one really cares 'what needs to be done', they really want to know 'was it done according to the engineering design', that's the key.
I think you've got some issues, which are not insurmountable, and your best expenditure of money - it seems to me - would be to go straight for the structural engineer on this.
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