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Posted by Nate Nagel on December 2, 2006, 4:32 pm
Lawrence wrote:
> I have a 12 year old house, with the original roof. On one side of my
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>>roof, there is a sunken rafter which is causing a dip in the roof.>
>>I was told that it would not move or sink anymore, but I would love to
>>get your opinion on this matter.
>>1. What caused this to happen?
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> My guess is that the framing member wasn't nailed down properly if at
> all. Has any other part of your house shown the problem? Any problem
> with the ceiling inside? If not then it has to be the framing.
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>>2. How severe is it?
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> I think it's pretty bad. Residential roof are always wildly
> overdesigned and failures are rare even in old houses. That house is
> pretty new and there's no way that is right.
I can't see the pics (geocities won't let me, says bandwidth exceeded)
but I was looking for a place a couple months ago and I saw LOADS of
houses with atrocious dips in the roofs (they were offered for what I
thought was extortionate pricing too, so I politely declined to make an
offer.)
nate
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