sometimes it's best to not roll the camera
on a project until you've had time to scratch a noggin
and figure out that no i didn't screw up as bad as i thought i did
hey everybody my name is sam and welcome back to greenecor homestead
welcome back to this next part in a series of us doing a roof over
on our mobile home we're sticking a brand new roof on our 1988 palm harbor
single wide mobile home adding overhangs gutters
and eaves maybe that was it i forget all that stuff we had nothing to begin with
for a disclaimer yep there it is i'm not a pro don't follow what i'm doing as a
step by step don't even do anything i do just sit
back and enjoy the picture show and uh hopefully nothing terrible
happens but you guys stick around till the end right
all right so today what i'm doing is a continuation of yesterday's work where i
left off and that was putting up the new eve
things that i've been framing the eaves we're just going to call them the eaves
putting up the new ease that i've been framing now the whole reason i said
sometimes it's better to start working before you roll the camera
is yesterday when i left after i was done with the video i came back out and
looked and oh my goodness i was off big time
my rafter tails were hanging down from the plywood
a good inch to almost an inch and a quarter beyond the point of
being able to use it so i let it stay overnight and i came out after work
today and give another good look just want to
make sure i wasn't looking anything weird
and yeah they were off really bad off so here's what i'm running into one i
don't really know unless the house is just twisty as a
twisty noodle but the first one i did these are pretty good there's a little
bit of gap here and there you know it's not
dead on perfect but this whole eight foot section
is great they're you know like i said a little bit of gap
but the plywood can be pulled down to it and these rafter tails are
plumb
yeah this section
you know not perfect but close heck of a lot better than the second section look
at this that's all sorts of wonky i'm at the
point where i'm going to take this one down
and instead of putting the 2x4 against the house first
and then raising it up to the roof i'm going to kind of put it to the corner
and let the rafter tails attach to the plywood
and see how that looks it'll probably give me a bigger gap back here at the
house but like okay so yeah like this hand i
can put fingers back there and that's kind of what i'm expecting
because the old roof overlaps at the top so it's in my mind it's thicker and then
it kind of gets skinny because it's just aluminum siding over the studs so i'm
okay with this situation you know hands behind the
board at the bottom much more than this situation so let me
take this whole section down that i put up yesterday
stick in the corner put it up against the plywood and see how bad off
everything looks then because at this point i don't know what
else to do other than probably scrap every bit of the work that i've done so
far and i don't want to do that just yet
okay i've fought and finagled with everything for a little bit
took this second piece down and put it up like i said i was going to
like paying more attention to the rafter tails running
lining up with the plywood and the top corner of the house and not carrying so
much that the bottom edge is flat with the wall
and it went a lot better i even pinned three of the rafter tails
to the plywood with screws and it really makes it look nice and straight
everything looks fine we're not exactly dead plum but the inconsistency between
second section and first section are the same
you can see right here here's these two where they meet i have not attached them
with screws or anything yet so there's a little bit of play
but as far as how they match and meet up i've not attached them with screws or
anything yet but as far as how they match and meet up on this
front face plus the bottom they are the same together
so from here i'm going to tack the plywood down with the screws
it'll pull it to the rafters and make everything super good and tight
and to be honest it's going to be good enough this is
none of this is ideal by any means the ideal thing would be you know tear
the whole siding off tear the whole roof off rebuild it
ah heck just build a whole new house why don't you reality is we can't do that
so we're trying to make the best we can of a situation that is
not ideal from a builder's standpoint or from a workflow efficiency standpoint
but it is something that is ideal for us doing this myself with help here and
there as i can get it but otherwise doing it myself without
causing leaks in our home and just creating a giant headache
i'd much rather fight with this stuff a little bit at a time
then have the whole top of the roof ripped apart stressing out
and really just destroy everything so again this is how i'm doing this this is
not a how-to at all but i am at least talking you through my
thought process maybe it'll help somebody out there all
right i'm going to continue on down the line
of attaching the plywood to the rafter tails with these two sections that i've
already done and then we will put up the next section
which will be the third
all right so you guys are going to be seeing the time lapse right about now
sam just carried a bottle jack up a ladder to his house and no doubt
you're going to be like what the heck is he doing what's he
doing let me show you so down here on the end of this 2x4 it's
warped apparently eight dollars still won't buy you a
straight 2x4 from the home center so i'm going to use this bottle jack on
top of the ladder to push this up about oh maybe half an
inch 5 8 of an inch to where it needs to be and then attach
it with screws so that's why sam has a jack on top of his
ladder
beautiful beautiful clark beautiful
beard cam uno mas uno mas
yay
so
i think what i want to do is change gears a little bit
and work more towards the final buttoning down of things and i'm gonna
go ahead and start putting the two by six sub
fascia starting on that end of the house and coming this way as far as i can
i need to make sure i leave enough overhang over the end of the house so
that whenever i do my rake ladders or rake rafters
whatever they're called the angle boards on the end of the house
that the 2x6 is long enough that i cut it to fit
and i want to make myself short so i'm going to let it overhang down there
i'll probably still attach the plywood to it so it tries to keep everything
nice and good and then i'll come on down along the
edge as far as i can attaching the 2x6 to the rafter tails and the plywood so
let's go right let's go let's go
welcome to the roof well okay the edge of the roof you're on top of the ladder
actually you're not you're out in the middle there ah don't look down
all right ta-da
all framed up got our sub fascia board up there
and it is buttoned down super solid nice and tight
just right i went ahead and left the overhang
down there beyond my hand left it down there farther than i know
the roof is going to go to be cut off at i still got to trim the ends of the
house so there's enough down there and it is attached to the plywood
so it's not going anywhere um otherwise this looks really really good
i told you looks good doesn't it now this reveal
this little lip i will come back and probably trim
yes probably will do that yeah i will um i've got to work out some
inconsistencies down on this end of the roof
no the other end of the roof where i started off so i framed up the soffits
or eaves whatever this is to be about a quarter inch
under length and it turned out really good so
nice uh let's see i think i probably got one more 2x6 up before calling it quits
for today so let me go down there measure and
put it up
i'm going to do one other thing while i'm up here it's the whole reason i
toted this thing around up here i'm going to put a couple of staples on
this sub fascia board to hold the underlayment from blowing up
on the roof i'm not going to go crazy with them i'm just going to put a couple
and i'm going to let the edge dangle freely so all the water just drips and
gets out of the way see if i can selfie stick this and show
you at the same time
do
i have two of the two by sixes put up in place angela got a little bit of
practice flying the drone she was not happy or really comfortable
with it but some of the things i want her to get
comfortable with and why not it's just me on a ladder
kind of standing still so that was fun i was glad that she
piloted that so i could focus on putting the board up and not falling
i have enough of the eve boxing thing of my jig widgets somebody please
give me a name for this i want to call it something
so please what do we want to name it let's pick a name i'll go with it even
if it's fred so i have enough fred's on the house
here that i can put one more 10 foot long 2x6
sub fascia board on the house before i then have to put another fret on the
house so i'm going to do that um it is getting
pretty late but i've got enough daylight i believe
to get it done so let's get it done
even though this day started off with failure and epic
mindsets of failure i think it ended up being a total success
i feel really good getting the one two three four sections of fred on the
house and three of the sub facial boards looking good
welp i'm at a pretty good stopping point because the next step
that i can do before i progress is to remove the roof off of our back porch
and continue cutting the old gutters off the house that's right i never finished
doing that beyond what i showed in that other video
i had so much fun that day i thought that i would just wait
and do it later and maybe let you guys have some more fun with me too
either way that's a video for another day i am done for today and very happy
and pleased with what i got done and that everything worked out as good
as it did feels really good i appreciate you all
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