![]() Laura and I noodled through the 7th grade geometry and determined that I needed a 64 degree angle at the bottom and a 116 degree angle at the top. It would look much tidier but it would also be easier. So I decided it would be nice to have an eve cap that was already bent to my specifications. And I knew it would be tricker to bend a U than an L. I don't have enough wiggle room to have the roof box extend out any further. However, It wouldn't work for these U-shaped eve caps to stick out without being bent up to vertical because I'm building my eves to 10' so I can still move my house with a trip permit. (Read My Tiny House Air Barrier for more on that!) So that was Plan C. That seam could be flashed with the Fast Flash from the Prosoco R-Guard system. When the metal roofing goes on another piece of flashing would cover up the top of the L-shaped piece before the roof panels went on.īut then it occurred to me that if I had an eave cap shaped like a U the sheathing could be tucked underneath as well. I figured with enough finagling, the flashing could be bent up to the proper angle so that it would be vertical. So Plan B was to install a piece of normal L shaped flashing at the eaves to catch the insulation. The orange on the first one is the 2 x 4 on edge. (The biggest trick to design I've learned is the ability to think 28 steps ahead! I'm working on it!) Once we'd finished Ceiling Up My Vardo, I realized that it wasn't going to work to put 2x4s on end at the tips of the rafters.īy the way, in these little thumbnail sketches, brown is the rafter, yellow is rigid foam insulation, purple is plywood sheathing, blue is flashing, and green is roofing. The trouble was that I'd done my sketches before I cut my rafter tails. I planned to rip the top and bottom at the correct angle (64 degrees) so that they'd sit on the Rafter Tails properly. My plan for the roof box as I went into the build was to attach 2x4s on end at the edges of the eaves with 6" timber lock screws. (Because my rafters are exposed, I'm having to build my ceiling, insulation, and sheathing from the bottom up!) Then I realized that I'd need to come up with a new plan for the edge of the roof box. ![]() ![]() Last weekend my Tiny House Helpers and I installed the bead board ceiling over My Arched Rafters, which I wrote about in Ceiling Up My Vardo. ![]()
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