Our garage is actually a Victorian coach-house and is a lovely structure with original slate roof. We've talked about converting it into a studio or something BUT on replacing a rotten fascia board have discovered the wall plate (I think this is the term, it runs along the wall and the trusses sit atop it) on one side is extremely rotten. Like you can grab handfuls of it as dust, there are evident strands of mould trailing around.
The trusses do not appear as badly infected and prior to this there was no evidence the roof had issues - no sagging or dipping, the slates are all neatly in place, etc.
Is the only way to fix this to remove the entire roof to put in a new length - on a garage this is an annoying expense but I guess not too hard, but if it was a house that would be an extortionate cost to replace one bit of wood! Maybe there are clever techniques to do this from underneath I can research if I knew the name or something?
The trusses do not appear as badly infected and prior to this there was no evidence the roof had issues - no sagging or dipping, the slates are all neatly in place, etc.
Is the only way to fix this to remove the entire roof to put in a new length - on a garage this is an annoying expense but I guess not too hard, but if it was a house that would be an extortionate cost to replace one bit of wood! Maybe there are clever techniques to do this from underneath I can research if I knew the name or something?