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7/15/2014 - Start on the Roof.
We got an early start today hoping to get a few roof panels on before it got too hot. We spent an hour or so planning our strategy and re-arranging panels so we could get the LULL up close. We set the first two panels, one on each side, in place without insulation in order to get them straight and square. We slide those out of the way and hauled up the first 44 foot roll of insulation. Those suckers are HEAVY. The insulation goes all the way from one side to the other. We got the first panels back into place and used our original holes to re-align them. So far so good. The next two panels went up pretty easily and lined up well. Each roof panel has 30 screws in it and has sealing tape along the lap joint. There is also a foam filler piece at the eave that prevents air, water and bugs from getting in at the bottom. I don't think they'll blow off.
We were working on getting the second roll of insulation set in place when I stuck my head through the center and looked toward the street. The thing that struck me as odd was the fact that the center purlins dipped about 3 inches at the front of the carport. I called Brandon over to see what I was seeing and that's where we stopped.
If you've been following along you will remember that on June 21st we had problems installing parts on the front of the carport. We thought that the front stub columns were 3 inches too long. It took several days to get new ones of the correct length. Turns out that wasn't the problem at all. We now know that the entire roof rafter at the front of the carport is sitting 3 inches too low. It is also 2 inches too wide and is causing the columns to push out at the top. This also explains several other problems we had during assembly. When we were cutting the angles on the sheeting for the front of the carport, it seemed that our template was out of whack because each cut was just a little off. Turns out the template was right, it's the roof line that's wrong. The extra width at the top was also causing the problem we were having with girt bolt hole alingment. The two center girts required that we elongate the holes on both ends by an inch to get the bolts in. That should have clued us in that there was something else wrong. I just wanted to get things moving and didn't stop to consider that the steel might be wrong.
I took some pictures and e-mailed them to both Premier (my building broker) and to Schulte Building Systems (the building manufacturer). I followed up with phone calls to both and left messages. I didn't hear back from anyone with even an acknowledgement for almost 5 hours. I'm really starting to get sick of this. I was promised that they would send someone out to look at the problem by Thursday, but I'm not holding my breath.
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