Caliente Tropics Iconic A-Frame suffers terrible structural damage - General Tiki

T tikiyaki Tiki Socialite The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA Joined: May 18, 2004 Posts: 2725	T tikiyaki Posted posted on Sun, May 22, 2011 11:00 PM On 2011-05-22 22:01, RevBambooBen wrote: The front bottom right support looked a lil' termite riddled. It also was twisted looking. Crazy stuff. I'm only guessing that the weight of the tile roofing didn't help either. I'm only guessing that it was engineered for shake shingles. Hope they can rebuild it. Funny, Jeremy from the Tonga Hut said the same thing about the shingles while we were both looking at it. I wonder what the cost would be to restore it as opposed to knocking it down and building something lame and boring in it's place. It doesn't seem that difficult to restore, but I'm no engineer. You'd need a serious piece of lumber to replace that entire beam tho'.

On 2011-05-22 22:01, RevBambooBen wrote:
The front bottom right support looked a lil' termite riddled. It also was twisted looking. Crazy stuff. I'm only guessing that the weight of the tile roofing
didn't help either. I'm only guessing that it was engineered for shake shingles. Hope they can rebuild it.

Funny, Jeremy from the Tonga Hut said the same thing about the shingles while we were both looking at it.

I wonder what the cost would be to restore it as opposed to knocking it down and building something lame and boring in it's place.

It doesn't seem that difficult to restore, but I'm no engineer. You'd need a serious piece of lumber to replace that entire beam tho'.

Post #590257 by tikiyaki on Sun, May 22, 2011 11:00 PM