Even if you add the tails to the trusses, you are going to be subject to the layout of the truss in whaich you sister onto. Trusses are generally 2x4 or 6 material (in this area), and the contractor/builder specifies a different 'over the wall' size a 2x10 or 12 as the tail that can be altered on site to get the decoration.Įxposed rafter tails is a complicated system, especially with a truss layout. And I have even seen them done in trusses. If in a larger material (e.g., post and beam/timber frame), they are created at the factory. If they are in 2x material, the carpenter generally does it right there, on site, from the rough 2x stock. In my experience, fancy, 'detailed' rafter tails are designed and determined beforehand. I'm not trying to give you a hard time.but your to this old framer, your post is very confusing as to what you're trying to achieve, and what someone is telling you can and can't be done. I'm not sure I'm following you at all do you have trusses or rafters? You wanted fancy tails, okay.what is specified in the contract? What is in the plans and in the specs? The tails have to be DOVETAILED into the existing roof trusses? I don't think so. I would love to know what your experience is with this.anyone? with a sassy modern look.hey, I'm not making this up (my landscape designer told me this today). Has anyone else experienced this? What are you doing about your rafter tails? My home is a Med. that's 6K I had no idea I was going to spend. The cost is approximately $60 per "tail". I had to go to the local lumber mill (dixieline) and give them the drawing for the rafter tail design. I am writing this thread to inform you, if you want the look, it takes more planning then to just say, yeah, that looks good, do it. The length of the "tail" has to be a 3 -1 measurement, this will equate to approximately a 6 foot "tail" that needs to be dovetailed onto the existing roof truss. I need about 100 rafter tails around my house. It's a lot of work and the added decorative measure can really add up. The rafter tails, if you want them decorative have to be dovetailed into the roof trusses/beams that run the slant range of the roof. I had originally specified I wanted some sort of decorative rafter tails, but I thought the roof trusses/beams just came that way.īoy was I wrong.
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I can work with him on figuring that out but I can’t keep a wedding timeline with that.So here we are, finally framing in the second story of our home and I get a call from the framer asking me about the rafter tails. We are pretty early into wedding planning and I want to call it off because weddings are expensive and I’m not sinking more of my money into an uncertainty.įiguring out whether he wants to get married will take time and time is money. That’s where his lack of enthusiasm comes from. The joke made me realize that he probably doesn’t want to get married. I let it go after I felt like I was nagging him to have an opinion on something He said he doesn’t care about the details at all. I don’t even need him to have initiative but an opinion would be nice. AITAH?Įdit: I’ve talked with him about his lack of enthusiasm about anything. He said it was normal to joke about this. He was very upset that I called off the wedding and said he was just joking. We haven’t sent out RSVPs or booked too many vendors yet so I want to call it off before it becomes an even more expensive mistake. I talked to my fiancé and said that I’m going to call off the wedding plans and we could re-evaluate if he really wants to get married or even stay in this relationship. He wasn’t interested in getting married and I don’t want to marry someone who doesn’t enthusiastically want to get married. I decided we should call off the wedding for now. I felt really upset that he didn’t acknowledge my hard work in planning the wedding and because he joked that I was trapping him into marriage and that I pushed him into getting married. He said he was trying to enjoy his last days of freedom before I trapped him in the marriage. My fiancé joked that he didn’t lock me down, I locked him up.
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I was telling them some of my plans to cut costs down and my friend made a joke that it was a good thing my fiance locked me down because I’m a professional. My fiancé and our friends were talking about the wedding. His default response is “whatever you want.” So, I’ve had full creative freedom but I am a little sad he didn’t contribute to anything, even the color scheme. My fiance has ADHD and finds planning very boring.
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I work in the events industry and this sort of thing is my passion. It was a beautiful intimate proposal and I loved the idea of telling our future kids about his proposal.