This home comes with a lake... on the roof!

[Christopher Morin]

I'm looking for anyone with some experiences on intensive water damage to properties... I've already talked to my contractor and I think we've properly accounted for costs, but I don't want to end up in a very bad situation here...

The home was built in 1955, 1400 sqft, and has an almost flat roof, which is completely worn out.  The center of the roof is actually bowed inwards from the weight of a sizable amount of standing water, and the home has been vacant for upwards of 3 years.  The interior ceilings are completely ruined and heavily stained from the water damage

IF we take this on, we're going to replace the framing and trusses and have an engineer put a pitch on the home to increase ARV. I'm concerned that the weight and water may have damaged the structure of the home resulting in MASSIVE costs.

Our current cost estimates include a rework of everything from the ceiling up (10-15K)...  How bad could this get?

[Herman R.]

HI Chris

After doing this sort of work for 32 yrs FL code has hight restrictions if you wish to fit an

A frame roof check with building officials first, and that would be the expensive way plus you still have insightfully ceilings. the roof beams are undersized or to wide on center i think the best thing to do is lightly jack up the old beams and sister it with new ones to hold it,s shape if the sag is over 2" you will need LVL,s as for the roof remove old layers 

and fit ISO foam board and layer it higher on center so you have a peak in-turn water flows off most off all you don,t have snow loads in FL to worry about 

as for wood rot check the sill plates first or have a professional put hands on to advise hope i helped you