The front of the barn roof collapsed in strong winds in autumn of 2005. I spent most of 2006 cleaning out the inside of the barn and trying to protect the exposed walls from the weather, with hindsight I should have just started to fit a replacement roof in 2006.
The front gable leans out towards the top slightly, but it looks like it has had this lean for years, i didn’t want to take the wall down until I found a straight bit because I thought that would probably result in demolishing the whole barn and starting again, something that I was not prepared to do.
The front gable had been exposed to the elements for some time by the time we started work on it in May 2007
One corner of the front gable wall had been recently rebuilt and looked square, the other side was joined onto an adjoining property. The top of the wall was crumbling because of exposure to the weather.
We constructed a triangular frame from 4×2 and held it up against the front gable to try and figure out the angles of the roof. The side of the barn that had been rebuilt seemed to have a slightly different pitch to the original roof. It seemed easier to use these angles rather than to modify the gable any more than was necessary. We constructed a gable ladder out of 4×2 and cleaned all the loose rubble of the top of the gable before concreting it in place.
Gable ladder concreted to top of gable
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Tags: front gable, roof