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Barbara Todaro, Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team (RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired )

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Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers
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For Topol to sit on while he plays Fiddler on the Roof!! 

Oct 29, 2016 11:13 PM
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Roy Kelley
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I will ask my agent.

 

Oct 30, 2016 01:30 AM
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Carol Williams
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I love Open Book tests!  I just had a new roof put on this summer and learned a lot about roofs.   LOL

Oct 30, 2016 12:14 AM
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Ryan Huggins - Thousand Oaks, CA
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It's so when you have to "interview" people you can ridge board them instead of water board them.  :)

Oct 30, 2016 04:26 AM
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I'm with Michael Setunsky 

Oct 30, 2016 01:08 AM
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Your questions always pique my interest in learning(or remembering) more. It's good to be informed.

Oct 29, 2016 11:43 PM
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I am with Michael Jacobs  - learning and remembering 

Oct 30, 2016 12:14 PM
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Lyn Sims
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Got me hanging .... I will ask Roy Kelly.

Oct 30, 2016 02:51 AM
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Carol Wilson
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The ridge board is a critical part of the building structure.  It holds together the front and back wall frames, providing stability and strength.  It carries the load of the roof and anything that goes on the roof (like a foot or five of wet snow -- they always plan for extremes).

Oct 30, 2016 02:07 AM
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holding roof up....

Oct 30, 2016 12:22 AM
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Wayne Martin
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It carries the load!

Oct 29, 2016 11:58 PM
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Michael has answered.

Oct 29, 2016 11:09 PM
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Michael Setunsky
Woodbridge, VA
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Barbara Todaro Holds the rafters together at the peak of the roof.

Oct 29, 2016 11:04 PM
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Raymond E. Camp
Ontario, NY

Help hold the rafters in a foof; also for a ridge vent if being used.

Oct 29, 2016 10:49 PM
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Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Burlington, MA
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Barbara Todaro - something to do with roof.... (you answered that, thanks.)

Oct 30, 2016 03:39 PM
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Bob Crane
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Where the rafters meet at the top.

Oct 30, 2016 02:48 PM
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Fred Griffin Florida Real Estate
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   It's what a ridge cap goes over.

Oct 30, 2016 12:40 PM
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Mary Yonkers
Alan Kells School of Real Estate/Howard Hanna Real Estate - Erie, PA
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Thanks for the construction primer, Barbara.

Oct 30, 2016 11:44 AM
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William Feela
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Yes, that is exactly what I was going to say

Oct 30, 2016 09:52 AM
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Gabe Sanders
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Thanks for the lesson, Barbara.

Oct 30, 2016 09:35 AM
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Harry F. D'Elia III
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It is used to support the ends of the rafters at the ridge

Oct 30, 2016 06:43 AM
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Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

The RIDGE BOARD is: the horizontal timber or member at the top of a roof, to which the upper ends of the rafters are fastened.

Oct 30, 2016 03:23 AM