You know when you are at the lumber yard and there's a pile of 2x4
lumber that's been picked through already, and nobody will buy it
because it's broken? They build houses with it, with no regard for where
the worst pieces are used. And there's a part of the roof where they
start doing multiple angles and one of the trusses had an intersection(I
don't know the correct term) about 6 inches away from an interior
bearing wall, and the ceiling joist happened to have an incredibly weak
spot right there, and the load must have been pretty high probably due
to the unusual combination of angles. And for some reason ceiling joists
in this type of construction are just 2x4 and it sheared with a bang,
breaking through the sheetrock ceiling. So I have it jacked up and I'm
sistering all the wood in that area.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

Dave Lagzdin wrote:
> 2008/8/27 Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net>
> 
>> And last night a ceiling joist broke in
>> my house and a roof truss poked through the ceiling, so I should get
>> back in the attic and try to do what I can do to fix it.
>>
>> Cheerful regards,
>>  Bob
>>
> 
> I can't even envision the events leading to that scenario,
> Clay roof tiles? tree? wind load and no toenails or hurricane straps?
> missing collar ties?
> D
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