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   RalphWicklund | Jul 10, 2007 08:11pm | #1

   It's a barn or your house?

   Extend the ridge and rebuild the gable end. The other side of the roof looks the same?

   You might end up with a cantilevered gable but that's not so bad.

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   JFink | Jul 10, 2007 10:12pm | #2

   that's an awful lot of "off" - did the starting side line up correctly?

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   seeyou | Jul 10, 2007 10:28pm | #3

   Is the structure truly out of square that bad? If it's not, you've probably laid your pans loose at the top and tight at the bottom.

   One solution is to take them back off and crowd the seams at the top and spread them at the bottom. Keep measuring to the rake until you get the seams parallel. Nothing you do to correct it in the last row will look very good.

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   bdeboer | Jul 10, 2007 10:36pm | #4

   What if you wrap the edge in corner tin, like you would a vertical corner of a pole barn?  You may have to notch the tin over the rib.  This may not be visible from the ground, beats pulling the tin off and crowding it.

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   Piffin | Jul 13, 2007 01:35pm | #5

   As Grant mentioned, it is far more likely that you failed to maintain proper alignment all across the roof as you layed these than thaat the roof is off tht much. It is just one of the skills that we learn over time.

   And the first thing to have done before starting is to measure and check what you have to work with and make minor adjustments in each sheet to account for it as you lay, if indeed it is off.

   The only solution I know of is to take it off and do it again, right this time

    

    

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   seeyou | Jul 13, 2007 01:46pm | #6

    it is far more likely that you failed to maintain proper alignment all across the roof

   Yeah, don't ask how I guessed that.

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   Piffin | Jul 13, 2007 01:53pm | #7

   I learnt early on to do layout and place reference marks for every sheet before ever getting first one on the roof. 

    

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