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The Hole in the Garage's Roof
6/8/2008 7:30 PM
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| Initial excavation of the rotten wood. |
As a stop-gap measure I slapped a spare shingle on top of the holes to try to minimize the leakage, but I did it sloppily and it worked about as well. But it was enough to stop me thinking about fixing it properly.
This spring, as the weather warmed up, I started to notice big ants crawling on the inside of the garage. At first I couldn't figure out where they were coming from (or going to). It wasn't until I started noticing little piles of rotten wood shavings under the holes in the roof that I figured out what was going on.
I climbed up a ladder and found a nest of Carpenter Ants in the eave of the garage near where the holes were. I manually inspected the wood around the holes and found it to be quite rotten. I then climbed onto the roof of the garage and started tearing away the shingles to get an idea of the extent of the damage. In the end I cut a square hole 43" x 26" to get rid of all the rot.
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Reparations
The process of fixing the rotten wood in the roof.
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