Hello fellow home repair experts,
I have a 12 year old house, with the original roof. On one side of my roof, there is a sunken rafter which is causing a dip in the roof.
Here are 6 pictures:
I was told that it would not move or sink anymore, but I would love to get your opinion on this matter.
Questions:
Thanks.
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Good luck,
tom @
I can't get to the pics either (Geocities has a max of 3 megabytes transfer per hour).
Assuming this is more than a trivial dip:
I'd wanna know who said it wouldn't get any worse and what they base that on. You could have a cracked rafter (only seen one of those ever), and I'd rather jack it up and fix what's wrong than have the dip. It cannot get better on its own, only worse, and when you go to sell eventually, any potential buyer will either be put off by it or make you fix it.
Hi fellow home repair experts and friends,
I have a 12 year old house, with the original roof. On one side of my roof, there is a sunken rafter which is causing a dip in the roof.
Here are 6 pictures:
I was told that it would not move or sink anymore, but I would love to get your opinion on this matter.
Questions:
Thank you in advance.
I have a 12 year old house, with the original roof. On one side of my
My guess is that the framing member wasn't nailed down properly if at all. Has any other part of your house shown the problem? Any problem with the ceiling inside? If not then it has to be the framing.
I think it's pretty bad. Residential roof are always wildly overdesigned and failures are rare even in old houses. That house is pretty new and there's no way that is right.
I don't think so. Since the problem is at the top of the house there is no weight bearing on it save the deck and the shingles. Even if the rafters are on 24" centers that leaves adequate support for now.
I have been up on few roofs as a roofer and haven't ever seen one like that.
Just document the damage and wait until the roof need to be replaced. Then you will be able to do something about it.
Claims on the builder can be difficult to pursue but something worth considering. If you can bring a claim against the builder right away they might agree to address the sitiuation when the roof is replaced.
I have a 12 year old house, with the original roof. On one side of my
My guess is that the framing member wasn't nailed down properly if at all. Has any other part of your house shown the problem? Any problem with the ceiling inside? If not then it has to be the framing.
I think it's pretty bad. Residential roof are always wildly overdesigned and failures are rare even in old houses. That house is pretty new and there's no way that is right.
I don't think so. Since the problem is at the top of the house there is no weight bearing on it save the deck and the shingles. Even if the
rafters are on 24" centers that leaves adequate support for now.
I have been up on few roofs as a roofer and haven't ever seen one like
that.
Just document the damage and wait until the roof need to be replaced. Then you will be able to do something about it.
Claims on the builder can be difficult to pursue but something worth considering. If you can bring a claim against the builder right away they might agree to address the sitiuation when the roof is replaced
Item number 3 below, "Is it likely to get worse" may need one additional question to be answered before coming to the conclusion that no additional weight bearing will occur. Specifically, is the roof located in a climate (like mine) where heavy snow loads are common in the winter?
Smarty
I can't see the pics (geocities won't let me, says bandwidth exceeded) but I was looking for a place a couple months ago and I saw LOADS of houses with atrocious dips in the roofs (they were offered for what I thought was extortionate pricing too, so I politely declined to make an offer.)
nate
A framing member might have failed.
Severe enough that I'd look into it.
Don't know.
Don't know but it happened to me and it turned out to be a non-issue ... but your sag looks worse than mine.
Can you get up into the attic and inspect the roof framing?
A few questions:
is this a trussed roof? how long has the dip been there--could it have always been there? can you get in the attic? are there any other symptoms, like cracked sheetrock, a hump on the other side of the roof, etc?
it could have been there all the time--basically a framing error. if that's the case, then it is a cosmetic problem that may be hard or impossible to fix at this point. if on the other hand, it is a recent development, definitely look into it. hard to imagine a rafter or truss failing, but it could be a missing connector or something like that. i'd say your best bet is to have a knowledgeable contractor go up in the attic and have a look see.
i think some pictures taken in the attic in that area would help figure out the problem, and how severe it really is
santa's got to lose some weight! :) we'd like to see the underside of the problem. what city is this in will determine the climate and shingle life. in buffalo ny if there is no leak, plan on fixing it when the shingles start leaking elswhere after 25-30 year age of roof. cover the roof dent with a photovoltaic panel:
snipped-for-privacy@w> Hi fellow home repair experts and friends,
This is like sending a pic to a doctor of a bulge on your side, and expecting an answer as to what caused it, how serious it is, etc. Where is a pic from inside? Is the area not accessible from the attic?
Like the Doc, one thing I can tell you is that this is not normal and needs to be investigated before it gets worse.
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