Step 22The roof
I built this little stand to hold the ridge beam. In most houses, the ridge board is just a place to nail the rafters to. They don't hold weight. This was setup as a true beam to help bear some of the roof's weight.
I got the beam from a guy on craigslist. He gave me a bunch of old dimensional boards he tore out of his attic.
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