#Decorative rafter tails gutters full

The gutters caused your rot so obviously they were either installed wrong or they were packed full of crap for years. I see trees around, it is a un-heated and I assume un-insulated structure, snow and ice building inside them, and you have plenty of over hang.

Regardless of the option I choose, I would ditch the gutters. I would hoose option #2 because it is fast, easy, and straight forward. Nail a J-channel to the wall above the siding and another to the inside face of the facia. Buy some cheapo vinyl un-vented sofit and J-channel. Nail on a facia board that will hang a little lower than the top of the siding. Cut the rafters back to good wood and sister on new ones. If needed I would toenail 2x4's between the 2圆's and to attach to those. Attach my sofit to these 2圆's on the outside and to the remaing lookouts on the inside. Attach 2圆's vertically, top cut at the rafter angle and bottom cut square. Remove the sofit, cut the rafters and lookouts back to good wood. If you have acces to the interior, screwing some steel straps from the stringer to the rafter would be better than not fixing the joint.Īssuming that the 'lookouts' are not carrying the weight of the rafters (they are tied to the wall hopefully), I would do 1 of the following: There can be a significant force upwards near the edges that can rip the shingles and underlying sheathing up and if conditions are right it can take the roof with it. This joint (and the tie to the wall) is also important for wind uplift, contrary to common sense many roofs fail upwards in a wind event where a venturi effect is created by the wind blowing over the roof. If the ridge pole is supported center span by a load bearing wall, this is of less concern. Get the right snow load on the roof, and the the roof could collapse when the rafter kicks out. With rot in this critical joint, the vertical load is probably covered but the horizontal load is not. Assuming you have a standard roof pitch, any roof load (and any snow) is translated into two loads, One load pushes down in the vertical load bearing wall and one load is pushing out away from the wall. From the limited info and the picture, I am concerned that the rafters dont have much overlap with the stringers.