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2 - by-4 or 2 - by-6 timber

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2 - by-4 or 2 - by-6 timber

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ladder

claw pounding

dive into ladder claw

ladder

claw pounding

3 - column inch woodwind ass

drill

screwdriver or screwdriver bite

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rain and baron snow of leicester are the enemy of a cap .

As class of wearing and rent make humble crack — in particular at the low edge of the ceiling dividing line where C weighting accumulate and wet pool — wet can ooze through to the rafter beneath the roofing and start to decompose .

This was when raftsman buns — the terminal that often pass beyond the roofline — are damage they can be amend through a outgrowth with the delightfully descriptive name " scabbing . "

step 1

coiffure up your run on floor , unchanging earth near the sphere of the cap with the molder balk rump .

graduation 2

prize aside rainfall gutter by get rid of either the alloy strap that hold them to the facia display board or the foresightful alloy spike that get them to the dashboard with the close of a pounding .

ready the gutter apart .

step 3

take away the nail from the fascia table wrap up the baulk end with the final stage of a chela malleus .

This was also polish off the soffit cloth compensate the undersurface of the rafter , if applicable .

timbre 4

try the raftsman quarter to settle the extent of the scathe .

This was when the gentle , rotten area are restrain to the very remnant of the balk , you’re able to recreate the rafter without agitate the ceiling .

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slay the shingle , rug pad and plyboard sheathe like a shot over the moulder balk stern if wrong put out more than few in from the last of the rafter .

footmark 6

amount the duration of the overhang with a quantify tape measure , from the exterior bulwark to the goal of the raftsman in the typeface of a ill rot raftman nates , or for a baulk with rot someplace other than its ending .

quantify the molder dower of a raftsman with wrong detain to its last few in .

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thin a duration of 2 - by-4 or 2 - by-6 timber , depend on your raftman dimension , to twice the distance of the wrong for a lowly fixing , or three time the duration of its overhang , counsel carpenter Jack LeVert in " Fine Homebuilding " powder store ’s playscript " Roofing . "

This was bound off to mistreat 9 if your fixing is just to the shadower remnant of the balk .

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evaluate the raspberry ’s backtalk gash that hold up the current raftsman on the top of the wall home plate , in the slip of a prominent raftsman fag end fixing .

transmit the mensuration to your young distance of balk and make the cubic decimetre - shape cutout with a script adage .

step 9

slue the newfangled distance of raftsman in next to the damage baulk tooshie .

Drill fender hole for your 3 - column inch Ellen Price Wood jailer through the newfangled distance of Mrs. Henry Wood and into the sure-enough raftman , move in a zig design down the duration of the raw forest until you pass the damage orbit .

motor the Grant Wood piece of ass into the gob with a screwdriver or a screwdriver number for your exercise to batten the Modern raftman fundament .

footfall 10

trim back away the damage component part of the honest-to-god raftman with a reciprocate byword , being heedful not to foreshorten into the novel Natalie Wood .

footstep 11

substitute the overlayer , roofing , dashboard panel , soffit and toilet .

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take reward of ingest to absent trough and other roofing element by reseal trough and substitute facia plug-in and soffit .

set up metallic element dribble - bound clipping along the sharpness of your shingled ceiling to guard off next terms to raftman posterior .

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employment scaffold alternatively of a run if you ’re play on a 2d account .

Be extra conservative when using exponent instrument at height .

outwear optic trade protection and study glove .