Friend of mine emailed this photo over and asked if I could come take a look tomorrow.
Said he paid a concrete contractor to pour a new driveway/ carport. He lifted the roof to do his thing and when he let it back down and anchored it- this resulted.
Sketchy now on details as the contracts claims no liability for this issue.
Friend of mine emailed this photo over and asked if I could come take a look tomorrow.
Said he paid a concrete contractor to pour a new driveway/ carport. He lifted the roof to do his thing and when he let it back down and anchored it- this resulted.
Tell him to jump on it and it should go back down or use that blacktop tamper, just be careful not to f'up rood shingles... worth a try before he has to tear the roof off and fix it the right way :laughing:
He said there was a carport pad poured, so most likely the entire outside support for the carport, plus the roof structure, was lifted at one end. Just a guess, and I think the photo isn't inconsistent with doing this.
I'd put this lift in the "stupid contractor tricks" category.
He said there was a carport pad poured, so most likely the entire outside support for the carport, plus the roof structure, was lifted at one end. Just a guess, and I think the photo isn't inconsistent with doing this. I'd put this lift in the "stupid contractor tricks" category.
Looks like a few of those "lifted rafters" are now higher than the original plane of the roof. It also looks like the ridge is out of whack as well over the carport. Is it stick framed or are there trusses over the carport?
Is that house in Levitown? Looking at how the shingles overlap the facia board. We are doing a job now in levitown and I think every other house has shingles way over the facia with no gutters.
If you look at the facia shingle...., looks like the garage dropped below being on an even plane .....I'm going to go out on a limb and say the sheathing is not attached to the roof joists anymore .....lifting.....
Is that house in Levitown? Looking at how the shingles overlap the facia board. We are doing a job now in levitown and I think every other house has shingles way over the facia with no gutters.
Looks like the old driveway/carport concrete was settled out before he lifted everything and poured. After the pour it brought everything up causing the shingles to wrinkle.
If the concrete was lower the shingles would be stressed/torn not wrinkled.
This looks like the sheathing down to the rafters were affected.
The carport roof must have been really settled out prior.
my guess is the carport was built in it's 'lowered' state and by lifting the roof it buckled the point where it joins the original structure. It may be as easy as refastening the sheathing to the original structure...or not
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