2020-09-07 Labor Day Monday

Rafters have generally been a source of errors for us...

It started when I didn't think about the way I had Paige trim the ends to be perpendicular to the ground relied on the rafter boards all being the same length even they came from three different sources. It continued when I decided to just try and average out the differences in the lengths and handle the differences on the fly. Then today somehow I got things backwards and added another half inch between the heel cuts when I determined that the heel cuts were a half inch too far apart. Sigh! So we spent a good chunk of the fixing self-induced errors, but managed to get a few rafters up and figured out a method for adding the rafter blocking that seems to be working really well.

Oh - and it was a very windy day - almost glad we didn't get to the point of putting roof sheathing up!

Morning time lapse - 6m 22s ( 3h 11m real time)

  • A helps D check fit of rafters cut yesterday while H and P set up to cut more rafters

  • D makes the back side heel cut for the rafters, then questions arise

  • A sweeps out the shed

  • Snack break!

  • D and P decide to measure all the rafters and start shortening some that are much longer than the average

  • D puts A and H to work toe-nailing rafters in place

  • P moves her work over the the more stable area at the base of our back stairs

  • D and P discuss rafters yet again

Afternoon time lapse - 3m 38s ( 2h 48m real time)

  • After lunch - David figures out that he added instead of subtracting on the rafter heel cut distances, but thinks he can use them still in an different spot without making changes

  • A and H are put to work adding hurricane / rafter ties

  • Lots of discussions about the problematic rafters and how to fix them

Decided not to do more timelapse for the day - it would have been more of the same...

We figured out how to fix the bad cuts and git a few more rafters up with some blocking. Had some challenges with rafter boards that were pretty twisted - to try and address it I'm alternating blocking in the front and back and will fill in the gaps once it's all done. Using clamps to force the twists out, I managed to break one rafter board a bit, so decided to take it a bit more slowly and have left it with a clamp on it overnight.