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Paul Sweet said:
It looks like a closed cut valley done bass-ackwards.
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It's hard to be 100% sure what is happening in the photo, but I find the photo consistent with the idea that the install matches your diagram, except the trimming of the shingles on the right hand plane is very rough (or else covered with a line of roofing cement), and an inch or two back from the valley center line.

Cheers, Wayne
 
It actually can work if you get enough nails in it, probably a dozen or so on each side. I scabbed extension rafters to the original when I raised the roof and finished a bedroom in the attic of our former house. I calculated the number of nails necessary to transfer the bending stress. It held up for the 25 years we were in the house and through several snows.
 
Paul Sweet said:
It actually can work if you get enough nails in it, probably a dozen or so on each side. I scabbed extension rafters to the original when I raised the roof and finished a bedroom in the attic of our former house. I calculated the number of nails necessary to transfer the bending stress. It held up for the 25 years we were in the house and through several snows.
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No question it can work. You're a professional who knew how to make it work.

Whole lot of people out here just trying things out and hoping they get lucky.
 
A lot of things will work until they fail!

You don't hear about the inspector until the news crew shows up and sez: "The last time it had an inspection was ???"
 
Paul Sweet said:
It actually can work if you get enough nails in it, probably a dozen or so on each side.
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I have approved many a scab.....picked on a few too..... there is a minimum of 4' on each side of the break for a total of eight feet and plenty of nails. That has always been for a repair or one questionable rafter but I wouldn't aprove that in new construction without an engineered, stamped detail.
 
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I have approved many a scab.....picked on a few too..... there is a minimum of 4' on each side of the break for a total of eight feet and plenty of nails. That has always been for a repair or one questionable rafter but I wouldn't aprove that in new construction without an engineered, stamped detail.
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IIRC, the solution was a "dwarf wall" to support the splices. That's an acceptable solution in Canadian Codes.
 
The job is a replacement furnace in a garage. Gas fired. The cord is between the furnace and a wall. The space is about 1.5" wide. I couldn't get an eyeball on it. I did get pictures however, I couldn't see what happened until I got the pictures into the computer. The contractor reused the old cord.

Furnaces are not listed with a cord and attachment plug. Long ago LA County allowed the cords as long as they were 12AWG or better. I was able to see the reversed fitting where the cord enters the furnace but not the damaged section of cord. I wrote a correction to replace the cord with a 12AWG cord.

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Did my first walk thru of a hoarding house - it was really sad - unfortunately we've been trying to get it condemned. The homeowner had some roof repairs done w/o our permission/permit so we went to inspect it - I'm not sure what is going on here. They left the rotted beams in place scabbed on some 2x4s to the questionable roof structure that had water damage from years of neglect. The roofing contractor won't return our calls.

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