Larry Jaques wrote:

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:22:41 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Larry Jaques wrote:

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:56:21 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Gunner wrote:

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:50:38 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


I went out to the main shop today, to discover that several beams had
cracked. The roof leak, and desroyed most of the parts & shelving. My
parts room is a disaster. The door delaminated and the window fell out.
How can so much damage happen in a couple months? I'm tempted to sell
the few tools that survived and hire a bulldozer to remove the whole
damned mess.

What the **** happened?


The old metal roof failed. All of a sudden there are holes I can put
a fist through. I was up there a few years ago and fixed some minor
leaks caused by the way it was installed and it didn't look too bad.

No, a new leak didn't cause beams to crack. Time to tarp over it and
get some interim supports. I used a standard old car bumper jack to
raise the roof on a porch I replaced. The steel yard had a couple
sticks of 1.5" square tubing which became my lift beams when lowered
over the jack column. I've used that technique to lift porches off
posts to replace rotted lumber, too. Works a treat.

Alternatively, you can get scaffold jacks on eBay for $25 apiece,
delivered. Just don't tell OSHA you're using them. They're safer but
they're illegal. Go figure.

Jack 'em up, sister in some steel, and Bob's yer uncle.


A 2" * 6" with a notch to go around the rafter, and a car jack will
lift it. then set another one to hold it and go to the next. I did
that about 25 years ago to level the floor in a 100+ year old house in
SW Ohio. Several 'Con-tractors' told the owner it couldn't be done. It
took me about three hours and a bunch of hardwood shims.

Goodonya, mate.

The problem is that tarps don't last long around here, and a medium
grade 1200 Sq. ft tarp costs several hundred dollars.

That's a bit cheaper than a new roof. If you could simply overlay the
new metal, that would cost $1,200 at minimum (local price is a buck a
foot for the 3' wide), plus underlayment, labor, hardware, and
finishing touches. Got equity to borrow against? Times are great for
those loans, with extremely low interest.


Zero credit history I haven't use credit in over 25 years.


BTW, 'Bob' was one of my uncles. Lots of uncles, just no 'Uncle
Sam'. ;-)

Oh yes you do. Sam's your uncle by incestual rape, as he is for all of
us. sigh


I disowned that SOB, after some nin-com-puke E-8 threatened to court
martial me for lack of respect to 'Uncle Sam. He gave me an impossible
order, then threw a bitch fit when I pointed out his mistakes that we
didn't have the equipment to do what he wanted. the joke was on him.
He was told he had 15 minutes to submit the paperwork for my promotion,
or he would be an E-1 by the end of the day.