"jiml" wrote in message
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| On 24 Apr 2007 08:04:32 -0700, al wrote:
|
| Got a new roof last June after previous year's hurricane. Contract
| states that "rafter helpers" will be installed as necessary.
|
| I've just found that the end of a rafter into which fascia and soffit
| are nailed is severely rotted back to the edge of the wall and am
| wondering if that is where a "rafter helper" should have been used to
| shore up that area. Fascia on that section was replaced when roof
was
| done so they couldn't have missed it.
|
| No, I don't think that is what he meant. Obviously the term is
| misused as a google search will show.


OP said
the end of a rafter into which fascia and soffit
are nailed is severely rotted back to the edge of the wall.

sounds like a rafter tail to me..........................



|
| What I think he meant is that a new roof looks a lot better if the
| rafters are relatively straight and even. Sags in a roof don't look
| nice and cracked rafters are going to be sagging. So he is saying
| that the roofers will go into the attic and repair as necessary any
| problem rafters. That means generally you have to shore up the
| sagging rafters and to splice a substitute rafter. It is really very
| common and should be done with each roofing job.



what the heck are you ramblin for?
sistering joists have nothing to do with what the OP was talking
about.
except for sistering "rafter tails" to existing rafters.

and where does he mention his sagging roof?
OP said
the end of a rafter into which fascia and soffit
are nailed is severely rotted back to the edge of the wall.

sounds like a "rafter tail" to me..........................