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Well looks like my plan to ride this weekend has been scuppered. 🙁
Whilst prepping a barge board earlier for painting I realised that about 14" of board is rotten through. The rotten bit is at one end of the board. I have scraped out as much as I could with the dying light but it presents a quandary.
Can I get away with a temporary repair and replace the section? Worryingly rain looks like it had worked its way back up the tile over hang and down the back of the board. This may not be the case though.
A bit more worrying is that the joist that the board attaches too was also wet and a little soft 👿
Any suggestions/ thoughts? 😐
it will last another week or two, so go for your ride, the wet 'joist' indicates a long standing problem, wet rot ? you can replace a piece of board, but for the price best get a new one, you do need to find the source of your problem first-- broken tile/felt ??/
Joist is more of an issue than the board, fix the course of the joist damp first.
I had ( possibly naively ) thought that the moisture seen on the end of the joist might have been from it being up against the wet facia board.
Hmm.
Will have a better look tomorrow.
Might invest in some felt support trays.
Hmm.
With hind sight the area does see a greater flow of water as there's a feed from another down pipe above running down the roof.
Hmm.
Is it "laddered" out off the main rafter? You'd very rarely see your last rafter flush with the gable brickwork? It usually sits inside the inside leaf of brickwork/blockwork.
That was my first thought too wrightyson but I think he's talking about the facia board judging by his later posts.
In answer to the question it will most likely be repairable but, like most of these questions, it's pretty much impossible to say without seeing it.
Yup after re reading got the same gist. Personally I'd strip tiles back if it's that wet and replace bottom m of felt. But as psling says pics would help.