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I am having a new roof put on. They started today. Now that they have half of the roof off It is totally apparent that the builder of the house back in 1890 was a pinhead. The roof deck boards just end where they end, the next board butted up and on they went. The joints between boards are not centered on the rafters. When they got to the end of the roof they took whatever the cutoff was and butted it up against the next board. Even if the cut off was not long enough to reach 2 rafters, there are many spots where both ends of a board are floating and it is just nailed to ONE rafter in the middle of the board, it tips when pressure is applied to either end.:doh: Of course as to be expected the bottom 2 boards are rotten. But I had expected that with a 120 yo house that had 3 layers of roof on it. The contractor gave me 3 choices. 1. Tear off all the wood and redeck. $5,000 2. Cover the whole roof with 1/4 OSB to give a flat solid nailing surface. $2,500 3. Repair all of the loose ends with new boards at $5.00 per foot installed. Estimate of 100-300 feet. How many total repairs will be needed will not be known till the other half of the roof is torn off. $500 - $1,500. The budget is tight on this job so I went with option 3. I hope I did the right thing, or at least not to bad of a thing.
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Not on motorcycle, but on a Raft. We have lots of Rivers in Western Washington State, and summer River Rafting is a popular sport in this neck of the woods. OK, 4 of July Yesterday, River Rafters are out in force . A few of them are Drunk Drivers !!!! ( not to surpriseing ) Anyway, just heard on news, This Drunk, falls off his Raft-- he is carried down river by the current, his fellow rafters ( not sure if they were drunk ) call the Sheriff dept. on Cell phone, Sheriff sends out Helicopter-- chopper uses Infered heat senceing cameras, flying down the river, thru a heavly wooded ares, and spots the " Hot Spot " Clinging to a large rock in the river -- Choppers drops the Rescue guy on cable ( just like you saw in New Orleans on TV ) and the Deputy Sheriff, saves the guy, and then back packs him out to an ambulance about 2 miles thru the woods !!! Is there a morel to this story?? can it be applied to motorcycling ??? Not sure, but anyway, I had a good laugh watching the news this morning. !! :hihi::hihi:
