Sheathing 1 2 inch plywood or osb is nailed to the rafters.
Framing a shed porch roof.
Position the square at the end of the rafter board with the tongue on your left and facing away from you.
Measure form the top of this line down the board to determine the line length or length of the rafter less the ridge.
If you are tying the shed roof into an existing roof on the house you will need to remove the shingles and sheathing to expose the roof framing.
Rafters should be attached to the header beam using hurricane ties.
Porch roof construction includes not only porch roof construction types and designs but also the selection of materials and considerations you ll need to build your roof.
A gambrel shed roof involves significantly more angle cuts than a gable roof but provides more storage.
Add the length of the overhang beyond this mark and.
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Put down your first sheet of plywood at the corner of one end of the roof.
When building a porch roof asphalt shingles or other roofing material are then attached over the roofing paper and drip edge.
From gable and shed roofs to hip and flat our information about how to build a porch roof will make the job easy.
Drive a nail into each corner of the plywood to hold it in place temporarily.
A stick framed roof uses 2x4 s or 2x6 s or whatever you are framing with but has a ridge board running down the middle ridge line.
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You then have rafters running down from this ridge board and resting on the top wall plates.
Then attach drip edge over the roofing paper.
Sometimes the rafter will have a tail and extend out past the wall so that you have a soffit or overhang.
Make sure it s lying horizontally across the exposed rafters and that the edges are flush with the edges of the end rafters.
Once completed roofing paper will be installed.
You will need to attach the porch rafters to the house roof rafters and replace the roofing and flashing.