So begins the attic insulation

Here I go again! Feel like chit and am sick of being sick so screw it back into the attic!

 

I might be!

 

To the attic!! ironpony

 

Looks like it’s off to Home Depot I need to do some work covering up a nice big opening into the porch roof.

 

I lost count at (&);763?1&? Man that hurt!

 

My trip to Home Depot just turned into an hour of snow removal we got about 8” more last night way more than we thought!

 

Yesh! Nothing like a 6’3 man in there! Lol

 

Yup gonna Get replaced this summer. LOTS of wiring to do yet

 

It actually sets flush I’m about to push the plywood down and break in my new nailer!!

 

Some are 3” framing nails but theve held up this long so I guess I’ll live with it..

 

Well my friend a contractor looked at this mess and advised me to not strengthen the roof because the porch side does not all sit on the wall but is actually nailed to the studs on half of it. The back is on the wall but the wall is not strong enough to handle the extra load.

Basically he said it’s stood since 1800’s don’t mess with it. The side effects of snow load being diverted to areas that where not meant for it are bad. He has done a lot of older home remodeling and says that is always a problem that causes more problems. Man that isn’t what we needed to hear....

 

We had similar at our previous home on the covered sun deck (complete with 3" nails sticking out underneath!), the cedar floor was poorly attached to the joists in the house and the roof continued from house to end of deck supported by the deck frame. There were telephone poles under there but the deck floated a couple inches above them . We did however change it up, we had to for both building permit & inspection though when we put a cement tile roof on that was heavier than the asphalt shingles.

Sorry about the bad news on making a new snow paths. This funky old house is, well funky, but it's withstood common hurricane force winds for like 70 years, so we're leaving most of it alone too.