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<\/a><\/p>\nWe were anticipating having to remove the corbel and to discover it was full of rot. Instead, the wood was beautiful — solid, full-dimensional 2x4s from the olden days — and the problem was the usual Jim Beam\/Jack Daniel construction method: four 8d nails where the Monk would have (and eventually did) use 12 3-inch screws. <\/p>\n
The four tiny nails had rusted into effectively two tiny nails over the decades, but otherwise the corbel was sound. The only thing needed was to remove the angled 1\/3 of the corbel, bang the nails out, and re-set it higher up on the vertical 1\/3.<\/p>\n
A job we thought would take half a day took an hour and a half, and we were able to move on to preparing to paint and trim the final unpainted, untrimmed upper sections of the house. <\/p>\n
Yeah, I’d be smiling, too. <\/p>\n
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Eventually the (damn) sun came out and it got too hot to work on the black, tarry roof. Since then I’ve been painting trim boards set on saw horses on the cool back side of the house. The Monk went off to take care of other clients.<\/p>\n
We’re set to start again tomorrow around 7:00 — an hour of day I don’t think the Monk often sees. I’ll remind him when he shows up, grumbling and insufficiently caffeinated, that it was his<\/em> idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He’s such a great problem solver of the Redneck Engineering variety. Problem: A corbel (bracket) on one of the gable ends of Ye Olde Wreck has given way and let a corner of the roof sag. The corner has to be jacked up and the corbel repaired or replaced. But that corner is over the junction of two lower roofs. There’s simply no place to set a jack or even safely wedge a prop to hold the sagging structure. The Monk’s solution: A lever made of two laminated 2x4s. We had plenty of scrap wood of various sizes to hold…<\/p>\n
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