February 24th: Nonofficial visit of the inspector

Maria calls Kent in the morning to ask when he will have time to come around. He arrives at 11.00 am.

The good news: it is OK how the valleys are connected to the existing roof, his only wish for improvement is to have screws from the back, too.

The bad news: Juergen was right, the valleys are not level with the rest of the addition roof.

Kent checks the bevel of the roof and finds out that:
- the bevel of the addition is at 4/12,
- and the bevel of the existing roof is at 5/12!

Nobody understands how that could happen.

Kent calls John, the drafter, and asks him to come around.
All together we check the drawings on which it is written that both bevels are at 4/12. And that is the way the trusses were designed and manufactured, of course.

There are 2 Alternatives:

A
Removal of all installed trusses, ordering of 5/12 trusses, which would mean several weeks delay and 2 days work for nothing. There will be a uniform look to the whole roof.

B
Leveling of the existing 4/12 trusses on the 5/12 roof to get a level roof ridge, this means one day of labor for nothing and 1 day delay for newly leveling the valleys. If we decide for that it will always be obvious out of a certain point of view that the addition and the roof are of differents bevels.

We decide for alternative B, of course.

Inspector Kent points out that the roofing inspector (somebody else) will expect revised drawings showing the reality.
John promises to make new ones and to take care of the sealing by the design engineer. We expect that this service will be free of charge for us as seemingly he had not checked the bevel of the roof before drawing it. He points out that the design engineer might not seal as the load per sqft. on th existing roof will be higher as the valley trusses of the addition will be nearer than 2' from each other.

Most probably we have to apply to have our permit revised. These will be our costs, of course!

February 24th: Leveling the valley trusses

After lunch Juergen and Patrick start to level the valleys according the bevel of the existing roof.

Later on it even starts to dribble. That is no fun with an open roof! Fortunately there are tarps to be found:

As you can see the result looks really good,
they even managed to protect the open roof by putting plywood sheats on the valley trusses: