Q: I bought a house in Paradise (Butte County) that had been neglected. Please help me with a gutter problem. It seems the gutters were attached directly to the ends of the roof rafters. There is no ...

Exposed rafter tails are one of the defining details of a Craftsman home. It was part of the movement away from the excesses of the Queen Anne Victorian design. The Craftsman aesthetic shunned the ...

I prep each rafter by squaring one end of the board. Rough-sawn and pressure-treated material usually isn't completely square, or it can be rough-cut on the ends. I do this either with a miter saw or ...