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On my to do list for this year was to replace the roof on my old stable now wood store. That was before a few health issues intervened. I am back in hospital tomorrow so tidying up before I go. I went in the wood store to find water all over the floor. Looked up to see daylight. One of the purlings had failed at the wall completely rotted through. The structure was holding itself up. So I jacked it up with a bottle jack and 6x2 placed several blocks of wood between a dividing wall and the purling 12” back from the end. I hope that will survive until I can get a roofer in to do the job.
Just what I needed (not).
 
(Purlin). Yeah, that's where they always fail. Sounds like you've got it under control, and that you've got more important things to think about. Good luck with both.
 
Thanks both. Not sure where that g came from. Let alone 2 of them!
I had thought of putting a pitched roof on because the current design was designed to fail (as it has). The problem is that at one end it is not square. In fact the end wall is two walls at different angles so it would form a complex hip. A better designed flat roof may be better. It will give me something to think about for the next week or two whilst I have enforced rest. I should be allowed to do light duties in a week or so. drawing might now be on the agenda.
 
Good luck, Peter, with both projects. We had a barn roof repaired over the winter. It's not pretty, but it is now sound and dry (and was a quarter of the price of our other quote).
Old rooves are a PITA.
S
 
Thanks Steve. It (the roof) is not old just very poorly designed. It is probably not even 30 years old.
 
Ah, at least mine was a couple of hundred years old, probably. I don't know for certain, but our neighbours' house has 1802 carved, rather crudely, into the lintel over the door.
S
 
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