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Originally Posted by 70SATMan
44 deg. here this morn.
Damn rear patio door project! Didn't get to install it on Sunday like I planned. When I pulled out the old french doors and was re-insulating and putting up new rock from the inside I had noticed that the RO had a sandwiched header with no spacer. I had also noticed that the outboard 2x12 had some bow in it.
No problem I thought to myself, I'll throw some 3/8s ply in there and get it right once I the siding was pulled off for the new door install.
Damn if the 2x12 on the exterior side wasn't in fact a 2x4! No wonder there was bowing. So, I had to regroup. Needless to say that it's a proper header NOW. Did I mention that when I first pulled out the old french doors, the only jack studs under the "header" at the time were 1x4s???!!! Was a bit of a ***** getting the new 2x12 up in there as the top plates had sagged since both had seams right over the opening.
I sometimes think that my house was built by monkeys.
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Holy cow! Don't they have building inspectors there?
Or was this an unpermitted mod to the house? The PO of my SoCal house fancied himself as Joe-Handyman. It's gonna take a while to put right all the stupid things he did to the house.
Speaking of the SoCal house, our next work-cation is one month away. I was preparing my worklist for the trip yesterday morning. Can't wait to get there!