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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on June 25, 2007, 10:40 am
>>
>> >> >> Last week I was in the attic of a local house completed in 1678. I
>> >> >> was
>> >> >> surprised that there were no ridge beams and had never been any.
>> >> >> Rafters
>> >> >> just butted to each other with a lap joint and a wood pin. After
>> >> >> 350
>> >> >> years
>> >> >> no roof sag. Why do we use ridge beams now?
>>
>> >> > Because it's easier to frame the roof when using 2x dimensional
>> >> > lumber. Without a ridge you have to put up both rafters at the same
>> >> > time. The ridge serves little if any structural purpose if the
>> >> > sheathing is of adequate thickness and the framing was cut
>> >> > correctly.
>>
>> >> You sound like you're talking about a ridge "board". A ridge beam is
>> >> structural.
>>
>> > Some people refer to ridge boards as ridge beams. I'd bet dollars to
>> > donuts that is what EDS meant.
>>
>> Since I am Canadian, but can no longer really eat donuts, or doughnuts,
>> it'll have to be my doughnuts to your dollars.
>> (What's the exchange this morning?)
>
> Hey now. I might have been born in the morning - it wasn't this
> morning!
> Homemade or store-bought?
The Gold Standard of Canadian Doughnuts:
http://www.timhortons.com/
The chocolate dipped are legal tender in the ten provinces, for all debts
public and private.
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