WWilts Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Wall plate for rafters to sit on & be nailed to. Chunk missing at a joint. Ok? Acceptable? Pic shows it from one side then the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 That’s nothing to worry about (unless it’s a hipped roof and the wall plate acts as a tie). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWilts Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 (edited) 39 minutes ago, markc said: a hipped roof and the wall plate acts as a tie Yes, hipped roof. Good point. Roof trusses attached to one another and to the building only by the skew nails driven into the wall plate. (There is some bracing between trusses too. & battens for tiling) Edited January 12, 2022 by WWilts added battens for tiling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Potter Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 In principle the half lap joint looks neetish.. what is less encouraging is the masonry below and it's bonding. Wall plates do an number of different things. One is to spread the load, another is to often act as a binder which ties the wall head over discontinuities in the masonry below. It may be ok but hard to say more without more detail / information. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWilts Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 7 minutes ago, Gus Potter said: what is less encouraging is the masonry below and it's bonding View of the internal face, same area. Pushed them to fill inner leaf joints internally & do concave tooling. Perhaps that was taken as licence to relax on the cavity face of the blockwork. Done in sub7 degr C temperatures too, sometimes 2 degr. Serious concern? Might be too late to remedy all but the easily accessible areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Potter Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Yes, it's not ideal but the masonry bonding futher down is more appealing. If that joint is falling right under a truss suppot point then you may want to see if you can take off a bit of the wall plate and form the joints else where. Remember that you also probably need to fix a truss clip there. Roofs are quite forgiving under certain circumstances and up to a point.. look at many old roofs and how they sag. But also remember that you don't want a dip in your new ceiling.. this may irritate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWilts Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Gus Potter said: If that joint is falling right under a truss suppot point then you may want to see if you can take off a bit of the wall plate and form the joints else where. Great point. Attic trusses sit around that area. Also the timber has holes that are going green. Just delivered, marked C24 M dry graded. Does it matter whether the holes are on the top face or the bottom, given that the plates will sit in the bad weather for a while? Edited January 13, 2022 by WWilts pic of hole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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