Not My trim...

[Oren]

...rusty screw

[RicodJour]

How come inspectors' ladders always look new? It looks like it was bought the same day.

R

[DD_BobK]

R-

Here's why they look new......some times people doing inspections (like CE's / SE's) come from a long way away.

I know a couple who in these situations, go to the local HD ....buy a ladder use it & return it.

Or they charge them to the job & it get's "lost".

cheers Bob

[RicodJour]

Bob, you seem to have omitted the DAMHIKT. ;)

R

[DT]

Looks like about 5 layers of shingles...

[Tony]

Is that one of those fold up ladders?

[DerbyDad03]

I'd like to know what that eye hook is *barely* holding up.

[RicodJour]

Nothing important - just the electric service.

R

[Red Green]

DT wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Should be able to use 2x4's for new trim where the fascia meets the shingles. Will make nice for layer 6.

[Red Green]

RicodJour wrote in news: [e-mail]:

If your premise is right in that they have electricity. Possible redneck clothesline I guess.

[N8N]

- [e-mail]:

Who says one wire can't do both?

nate

[RicodJour]

It's an observation, not a premise. You can see the service cable looping down below.

R

[DerbyDad03]

re: "It's an observation... You can see the service cable looping down below."

Just for fun, I'm donning my lawyer's wig - the British kind, not the fungus.

Fact: I know that a single stranded cable is attached to the hook. Fact: I know that there are 2 sections of black cable shown in the lower portion of the picture.

Fact: I do not know that the black cable is the electrical service cable for this house. Fact: I do not know that the single stranded cable from the hook is attached to the black cable. Fact: I do not know that the 2 sections of black cable are connected to each other.

Anything other than what can be directly observed is speculation.

[Jules]

Obviously those are "structural shingles", and the owner's chosen to to add a bit of redundancy into the system.

[RicodJour]

It is possible that the cable in question is for the homeowner's satellite dish. Beat up shacks always have satellite dishes. ;)

R

[Mark]

Probably two roofs. Being the corner edge, each roof would have 3 shingles, a starter row, first row of shingles, and being he corner a corner ridge cap shingle. Of course a good roofer would probably have at least pulled the ridge cap off so the second roof would lay flat, but then.....

[DD_BobK]

I'm pretty sure I know what the wires in the photo are.

phone line.......bare wire is the "strain relief" / "tension tie" taking the "pole to house load. The loop is the telephone conductor coming off the pole to house line.

I might still have one ot these in my garage from when my land line connection (very old) went away.....unless I tossed in a recent clean up.

cheers Bob