I did not. He sent the pictures to me and asked questions since he is out of state now. It was previous client.
Unfortunately this is the skill level we will be seeing for years to come. Due to the trades being decimated in past economy and few skilled tradesmen to teach the young workers entering the trades.
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All I can say as a contractor that would have never happen on my watch.
I always have them pull a string on all trusses as to avoid this kind of FUBAR.
I would have hit the ceiling seeing this. Yep!.
The framers would have to come back at there own expense to properly correct this mess.
Shims don’t cut it.
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I did read that in another post that you made about that picture being sent to you, I totally forgot that you had said that.
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Yes! You make me laugh…
Call them… the contractor should be arrested…! Yes?
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This happened because when the installed the trusses, they was no lined up properly. I have seen this before. Every truss is the same size. If one truss is Installed a 1/2 back then the plywood will dip on one side and bump out on the opposite side. Causing a wave in a new roof. He should have sistered a 2x6 to the side that was short instead of trying to wedge it up.
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How do you fix the side with the hump?
Billy Bob’s chainsaw. 
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Don’t give them youngins any wild ideas, now! 
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Simon…LOL!..LOL!
You don’t lol, not without taken the roof system apart. But the photo shows them using wedges to try to level off the dip. Easier to just run dead wood up the side to fix it than wedges.
Somebody needs to choose a different career, like stuffing pillow!
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Sad thing is I’m sure they saw no problem with it , if it was after lunch they were probably on their second 12 pack of Milwaukee’s best.
It also doesn’t help when a builder is doing 10 houses in a new subdivision, and takes delivery of all trusses at the same time, Trusses set in the yard for days and days, in FL, that means thy sit in muddy water for days…
Another fine example of an incompetent building inspector! So much of the “junk” I see has been approved by the one person that stands in the only place to protect the home owner from a bad builder 
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The repair is so bad it looks spiteful. Given the unobstructed run along the 2x4 in the top photo, wouldn’t it have been twice as easy to sister 2x4s with the correct bevel on the upper edge? You have to think that mess could never have passed inspection.
Looking at those pictures again, sistering is not a standard option either. If this roof slope was like the side of a hip roof, the trusses should have had 2"x4" sleepers perpendicular to the trusses so the roof sheathing would have laid flat on the sleepers and not have a gap.
That dip in the sheathing was caused by mis-alignment of the trusses and they tried to correct it with shims.
With the plywood or OSB just bearing down on the truss edge is not an acceptable standard procedure in framing.
It is FUBAR, no doubt about it.
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