Thanks! Lintel is the word I was looking for! I'm just going to hit it with oshpo and paint it whatever color she wants.
Told her I would "hepp her out and git it done fer only $300, save fifty dollah!"
This house was built in 1984. That steel has been up there for damned near 40 years and I say it'll be there 100 years from now even if she does abso****inglutely nothing to it.
In NC. At friend's house. She claims the inspector told her that she'd need to have someone come use steel wool to scrub all the rust off this header plate. There's another over the garage door. I say he's full of schitt and probably shouldn't be an inspector based on the other ****ed up shyte...
By "reinforcing" the roof of this sun porch? All I see is he scabbed a bunch of 2x6s to the existing structure, but no additional supports on the load bearing surfaces. I supoose he called himself "raising" the roof but it wasn't sagging to begin with. I think she got skinned for $tree-fiddy...
I remember paying $1,900 for a custom, Amish made solid cherry armoire from Pennsylvania in 1996. Man, I thought I HAD ARRIVED when that thing was delivered to the apartment in Cincinnati.
I kind of wish I still owned it so I could do this to it but sold it in San Francisco in 2001 when I...