Originally Posted by
Markus Keller
- Are you thinking the short jack rafter runs are original rafters that they cut, then added the 2x12 and longer rafters for the bump out? - Or do you think Stanley ordered the rafters too short and added on...
Keep in mind those pics shot by sticking the camera through the small opening between the roofs, I did not directly observe any of that.
And now, looking at the pics again after improving them in Photoshop, I'm thinking perhaps that's *blocking*, the rafters *are* continuous, and that structure at the rear is just supporting the hip rafters, and that "purlin" is just a nailer.
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Later....
Nope. Cut. I don't see *any nailing* except one toe-nail through the bottom, are they just resting on the purlin?
Sure looks like.
My guess is that the "purlin" was actually a temp support, the framers left for the day, and the sheathing went on the next morning without the rafters having been attached.
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it unless someone here comes along and tells me I've got it ALL wrong, preferably *before* I have to tell the client that the last time I saw this construction technique I was nine, and we were playing Pick-Up-Sticks.
Meanwhile, framing contractor, or SE?
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It will be a *big* mess to get in there if that has to be improved, likely they will to remove the attic furnace and a considerable amount of duct to get in from the interior, might be easier to strip a section of roof and go that way.
