" Are those roof brackets structural at all?"

" No, they're just decorative, just ornamental."

" They're not holding up."

" They're not carrying any weight at all. Okay."

" And you've already taken one out here in the corner?"

" Right. We've taken this one out here, and we're gonna replace this up here on this extended fly rafter."

" That's an extended fly rafter?"

" That's an extended fly rafter."

" Oh, it's not a rake?"

" It's not a rake? It's a rake board, but it's a fly rafter."

" Oh, okay. Alright. And it's rotted out, the first 3 or 4 feet."

" Yeah, we're gonna take about 4 feet of this out, so we don't have to disturb the roof shingles. "

" Oh, okay. That's right. The roof shingles are metal, and they'd be a lot of work lot to replace."

" To replace those."

" Now what about the rest of these rafter ends, though?"

" They're good."

" Are they okay?"

" Good shape, real good shape. There's no sense in [unk]. We're gonna get it pressure-cleaned, and then we'll really see what we're looking at."

" Alright. Yeah. When we pressure wash the whole house,"

" We'll pressure wash the whole house."

" we'll have a much better idea of the condition of the wood."

" Right."

" What about the siding? It looks good, doesn't it?"

" Real good. I am pretty sure that's cypress. It's good cypress."

" If it's cypress, it's gonna be around for a long time."

" Yeah, right."

" And how about this detail on the bottom here? I've never seen this kind of----"

" That's your drip edge, and it comes over here. It's a little bit loose right now, but we'll put some nails in there and that will tighten right up."

" Okay. So it helps to keep"

" Oh, yeah."

" the water from running down here and running up and sucking back up. This drips off the edge. That's why they call it drip edge."

" Yeah, that looks good."

" Now, with my son over here, he'd replacing one of those rafters we were talking about and onto the [unk]."

" That's Steve, right?"

" That's Steve, my son right there."

" Hi."

" That's pretty noisy."

" Right."

" And you could see what he's taking out of here. It's rotted. This was the piece that was up here, right?"

" Right."

" That's the piece that came out of that right there and it's rotted. You could see what that yellow pine is; how hard it is."

" That's really hard."

" -You put in that spike, and that you can't take it out."

" But you did have some rot?"

" Oh, yeah. It rotted right down to the section here."

" Okay. So with the situation we've got up there is similar down to the other side of the house?"

" Right, exactly."

" You've got a rotted extended fly rafter that we're cutting out."

" Cutting that part out."

" [unk] over this termite."

" Yeah."

" It's dropping through there."

" Absolutely. That's the main reason why we have to tent that whole house."

" Exactly. Exactly."

" Many places. There had been termite damage where you couldn't really see. Look it down here."

" Now, the brackets themselves look a little bit complicated with the beveled ends and so forth."

" How are you gonna make it?"

" Now, they're very simple. My son Steve here, he's already got a couple of cutouts. They cut him up there to shop."

" Oh, that's beautiful."

" Yeah, they're about 15-20 minutes to get one made up."

" And you made all of these in your [unk]"

" Right in the workshop."

" the workshop."

" Right."

" Let's take a look."

" Well, making a replacement bracket shouldn't be too hard, right Steve?"

" No, it's not gonna be hard at all. We've got the pattern right here. What we're gonna do is take a piece that's stuck. It's a pressure-treated 4 by 4."

" Yeah."

" What we're gonna do is just take our pattern here. We're gonna lay [unk] right on the end here."

" Get them all evened up. This has already been cut to length. We're gonna take. We're gonna mark them up. Right here."

" So that's the easy way to figure out what your cut would be?"

" Right. Now, this angled cut here would be just put on the end of this. We're gonna do so by the saw over here."

" Okay. I've taken and put a piece of wood here against my fence to move my 4 x 4 away from the saw blade."

" So that you're not starting off to cut with the blade right up against the wood?"

" Exactly. I've taken a stop here. What this is gonna do is give us a uniform cut while we bring the saw through."

" Okay."

" So I'm gonna do that right now."

" You're safe to go [unk]."

" Here we have a nice beveled edge on the top of this 4 x 4."

" Uh-hmm."

" It makes a nice finish look."

" Yeah. And that's the kind of detail you can put on top of the fence post if that's the sort of thing you build."

" Right."

" Now, what about making this cut? This is about a 70- or 65-degree angle."

" Yes. We've figured this out already. This is about 65-degree angle."

" This is a 45 so if this is the 4 x 4, we bevel on the saw here. We're just gonna cut that now."

" Okay."

" Okay, Bob. Now, we have a radical angle here that we've gotta cut."

" Yeah."

" The way we're gonna do that on the band saw."

" Okay. Okay, so this is a 65-degree cut, right?"

" Right. But cutting a 65-degree cut on the radial arm saw is pretty awkward."

" Yeah. You really gotta pull a difficult angle there."

" What we're gonna do is we're gonna set this up with a 90-degree."

" We're gonna take this. I've made a couple of jigs, 25 degrees. The 65 and the 25. That equals a 90-degree cut,"

" which is your right angle cut there."

" Right. So what's we're gonna do is----"

" Nice fit. That's a beauty. Okay, thanks a lot, Steve. Putting the new rake board in place wasn't as easy as we would have thought. We can't nail through the metal roof shingles up top so we pre-drilled some holes through this hard yellow pine, and we've driven in some six-inch screws which are now fighting those old roof boards down into place. Putting in the replacement part of the decorative bracket is an easy part. As long as you pre-drill through this hard lumber and then using 20-penny galvanized nails, we secure the piece."