Reattaching Corbels

wackman

I'm looking at job where the client want's all the corbels, that have slightly pulled off the house near the top, reset.

I've done several of these before but it's always been when we were really opening up the walls for a remodel and had good access to add some lumber.

There's no other work going on that would really make sense to open up all the walls so I'm trying to think of a trick to beef these up without major inside wall work. Anyone got any ideas how to push these eves up and reattach the corbels just from the outside and have it stay up?

Wack

Tom M

Is it from water damage? Are they actually assisting the eave support? Could you pull them down and attach them to a freize board like 5/4 or 3/4 x 10. Then push up in place and fasten the frieze.

wackman

Yeah, it's an older house and they're the only support on the gables. It's not bad and I told the homeowner (new buyers) that they had a normal amount of sag for the design and age. Probably a 80 year old house. They just want them lifted. There's no frieze on this house so do you mean supporting the eaves, removing the corbels, adding the frieze and then reattaching to house and frieze?

At the top they've pulled away about an 1 1/2" and the eaves probably dropped about 2-3". I've always just added framing then counter sunk some lags to pull the whole kitnkabboodle up but they've got em everywhere on a bunch of dormers. That would be a lot of wall work.

neolitic

I've done what you have, jack it up and re-attach. Instead of lags though, Spax, and Fasten Master (TimberLoks) make things like lags that need a smaller counter bore. Spax has a way more aggressive thread than a regular lag.

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Tom M

Well I cant see what you do. But Im thinking its wood so attaching the corbels to a frieze on the ground then pushing up and nailing to the wall was a thought. Its gonna be a lot of work either way, maybe too much for that kind of sag. Is it a open eave? Could you do a ladder type of block in the eave then cover with soffit? This could help from rotating downward. I guess the sheathing doesnt tie very far back into the main either.

wackman

I couldn't think of any great tricks so I just told them that if they really care that much about lifting those eaves back up it's going to be a fair deal of work and shot them my price. Either they want it or not.

Thanks for the ideas.