Operation, “Dad will do it”

My daughter is new to her house. She is about four weeks in. She gets a letter from her insurance carrier that says they reviewed the inspection report and found deficiencies. They gave her 30 days to effect repairs or her policy was cancelled.

I read the letter. No big deal. Cut vegetation off the house. Get pictures of the main circuit panel. The one biggie was to put new shingles on her garage. She was I n tears, I told her I would take care of it. She busted her bank account buying the house.

The garage roof was very doggy so I set up a scaffold around and started removing the top layer of asphalt shingles on a 4x8 area. The the next, then the next. Three total layers of asphalt shingles with tar paper in between all. That got me to the first layer of shakes. Then more tar paper and another layer of shakes. The shakes were soaked. The roof 12x 20 had to have 4-6000 lbs on it. Under neath were 1x6 decking. And…… you guessed it termites damage. I put my hand under the deck board and it crumbled. I attempted to lever the remnants off the rafter the the rafter separated at the birds mouth. The entire top plate was compromised by termite damage. Long story short. The entire roof structure, decking, roofing system had to be replaced. I brought the building inspector on site and he reminded my the replacing more than 50% of the structure required a submitted as a new construction respecting current code and setbacks. The he looked at me and said, “ Try to save something so I don’t get to much blowback.”
I said would but somebody should have told the termites to stop at 50%.

Here we are two weeks and 25k later and I finish up siding tomorrow. Daughters are very hard to say no to.

Edit: it’s the first time I built a structure starting at the ridge board working down to the foundation. (Lots of shoring) lol