Handyman Referral

[KeaauRich]

We need someone to do some carpentry work - replacing a couple of rotted fascia boards and repairing the rotted end potion of a hip beam (all under the roof overhang). I've checked the usual suspects on PunaWeb without much success. Anyone have anyone they can recommend?

[EightFingers]

Structural beam repair and/or replacement is more than a typical handyman type job. Are you thinking of cutting out the rotten part and splicing in a replacement piece?

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[KeaauRich]

The rafter tail is only rotted about 3-4 inches, and the involved beam comes down on a diagonal to the corner where the lanai and garage roof lines meet. The adjacent beams on the two roof lines are close enough that, to my admittedly untrained eye, the roofs seem pretty well supported by the adjacent beams. And it looks like the part of the beam in question may still be solid where it supports the perpendicular wood above it Our thought was to either splice in a new piece on the end of the rafter or to cut out the 4" rotted segment, replace it with a solid section, and then sister in boards on both side of the entire section of the beam under the roof overhang.

[terracore]

Royall.

[Hunt Stoddard]

Get some scaffolding or get a person with scaffolding or a lot of insurance. Doing that repair from ladders can be a death defying feat. Or it can be easy with the right equipment, depending on whether it's one or two story, of course.