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Thanks for the moral support all! And thank for you letting me bounce this off you aart. I’ve never taken on a challenge like this by myself, I’m usually the go-pher.
I diagrammed it out to the best of my ability. If anyone is actually interested and can read my chicken scratch, here you go. Blue is rafters, green is stapled down roof wire. Dark inside line is the wire wall that I will be cutting out. Tape measure was only 12ft and I had a hard time measuring by myself in the rain so everything is within a 2inch margin.
As you can see, whoever built this was not a fan of consistency.
I can definitely add more rafters. We have plenty of scrap lumber that won’t be used for anything else. I just don’t really know where to add them or how to with the stapled down wire in the way. This might sound stupid, but what if I put rafters on top of the wire that’s already stapled on? And then screwed the wire into the added rafters upside down?
The area space of run not including the tin roof space is 680 sq ft. I had another look at the lattice I was thinking of.
I think it’s 4 full 6x4 pieces (forgot to write down measurement) with some shorter pieces on either side that go up a hill. So not enough. I guess it wouldn’t have worked anyway. Back to the drawing board.
Swept down the wood deck under the tin roof area. I will not be cutting this out, even though I know that would be ideal. If it is a huge problem in the future, I don’t see why I can’t cut it out later.
I diagrammed it out to the best of my ability. If anyone is actually interested and can read my chicken scratch, here you go. Blue is rafters, green is stapled down roof wire. Dark inside line is the wire wall that I will be cutting out. Tape measure was only 12ft and I had a hard time measuring by myself in the rain so everything is within a 2inch margin.
As you can see, whoever built this was not a fan of consistency.
I can definitely add more rafters. We have plenty of scrap lumber that won’t be used for anything else. I just don’t really know where to add them or how to with the stapled down wire in the way. This might sound stupid, but what if I put rafters on top of the wire that’s already stapled on? And then screwed the wire into the added rafters upside down?
The area space of run not including the tin roof space is 680 sq ft. I had another look at the lattice I was thinking of.
I think it’s 4 full 6x4 pieces (forgot to write down measurement) with some shorter pieces on either side that go up a hill. So not enough. I guess it wouldn’t have worked anyway. Back to the drawing board.
Swept down the wood deck under the tin roof area. I will not be cutting this out, even though I know that would be ideal. If it is a huge problem in the future, I don’t see why I can’t cut it out later.