To fix the joists and rafters down on to the wall plates they should be toe or skew nailed to the top plate like below.
Roof plate fixing.
You may need to use a putty knife to break the seam between the first course and the starter strip.
Even when nails or structural screws are used spacing m ust be considered and the fasteners used at the repaired joint or member extend much further from the joint or crack than a metal connector plate.
The required pack comes supplied with the appropriate cleats and screws to penetrate through the timber top plate packer and into the top plate.
At 7 05 paul begins replacing the drip edge roof flashing.
This should replace the strength of the original gusset plate.
If you can easily stick a screw driver into.
Set out the ceiling joists onto the wall plates the ceiling joists are installed before the rafters as they will stop the roof spreading and also give something for you to lay planks across to stand on when building the roof.
Remove roofing and turn each sheet over.
What was previously a valley in the corrugations will now be a ridge and the nail hole will be in the correct place.
You will have to paint the roof but is cheaper than buying new roofing.
Damaged roof decking should be repaired by a professional but you can create a temporary solution by following these steps.
I e the original roof was a light wood shingle roof and the new replacement roof is a concrete tile roof weighing 5 or 10 times more than the original roof.
If a roof has been re roofed with heavier roofing material than the original roof was engineered for.
For typical roof trusses used in light frame construction bolts are usually not used because of spacing requirements.
After the roof is installed the most common practice is re installing the dish in the same holes but there s a far better practice that doesn t involve potentially causing needless damage to the newly installed roof and minimizes the amount of time customers go without television service.
Measure the damaged area between your roof rafters or trusses.
9kn and 16kn truss to top plate fixing used in pairs the cpc40 cleats achieve 9kn and the cpc80 cleats achieve 16kn.
Slide the flat bar under starter course and pry out the nails.
