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Posted by tom on November 10, 2006, 9:12 pm
Just lay your ply over the skip sheathing or scab boards. It's done all
the time. Go with 1/2 inch ply. Tom
Goedjn wrote:
> Ok, So I'm in my attic last night, checking to make sure that
> the fiber=glass patching material I drenched the roof with
> is keeping water out, and I occurs to me as I'm considering
> taking the skip sheathing out and replacing it with a
> plywood deck,(in the spring) that it looks a bit odd.
>
> It turns out that my rafters are spaced 5 every 12',
> which works out to around 28 3/4" apart. Standard
> 4x8 plywood isn't going to work out anywhere,
> and I'm not especially eager to be paying extra
> in order to fight with 10' plywood trimmed to 115"...
>
> The two least gruesome solutions I can think of
> are to either just add in extra rafters
> at the 8' marks once I get the roof off,
> or abandon plywood and re-do to the roof
> with planks.
>
> (I would *LIKE* to go with slate, but
> I don't expect to be able to afford that,
> even though that avoids the cost of re-decking.)
>
> Am I missing any obvious approaches? Un-obvious
> approaches? And is there any reason other
> than price to prefer plywood over a planked
> roof?
>
> --Goedjn
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