Originally Posted by
Dave Grubb
There was a lot of barns that did not fuss with a cap. They cut one side off at the peak and the other side ran past that a couple of inches. I was always impressed by how many "daylights" those roofs had---and nary a leak :clap:
My SIL was going to put felt on this but I did manage to talk him out of that. It is on lath. We actually made trusses for the rafters.
I'm sure you encountered this in old barns. The lath was oak and often the rafter spacing was wider than we do now-----trying to drive nails into that lath was like driving nails into a rubber band.