How To Put A Pitched Roof On A Porch

I chose a pitched roof design and in this video take you through the entire job from start to finis.

How to put a pitched roof on a porch.

Make a cutting on one of the sides of the horizontal roof beam on an angle. Building a pitched roof. Metal roofs costs significantly more than traditional asphalt shingled roofs. This is part two of the porch build where i am doing the roof.

Visualise your roof and evaluate different shapes this is an important step and it is worth spending some time on it. Then knock a 6 nail down through the hole and securely into the wall plate. Put it between fascia board and roofing material and fix with nails. Position the rafters on top of the sill plate.

If you live with someone i also think it is important to involve your other half at this point. My diy pitched roof building technique can be summarised by the following steps. We need to do something where that change happens so the panels can go down and water can come off hit the lower slope and come off the roof. After that to make it flush with the roof of the existing house cut the two outer rafters.

Use plywood to insulate your porch roof. First of all fasten the beams to the rafters from one side and support posts from the other side. The porch roof may match the pitch of your home or have a more shallow roof pitch. Also sidespike 4 ovals into either side of the rafter again into the top of the wall plate blue arrow above.

Install the fascia board on this frame and nail it accurately. Use screws to secure the rafter to the sill plate. I show how i construct it showning in detail how to do the lead flashing. Joist hangers can help you mount each rafter to the house.

You ll have a steeper part of your roof turning into a lower slope so there s a steeper pitch up top and a lower pitch on the bottom. See exactly how i made a simple porch roof step by step. Together the beams will make a frame. Attach the horizontal beam by using a nail gun.

You have to do it thoroughly so that the rafters sit flush on it. The traditional metal roof types such as 5v crimp shown above and corrugated are rated by the manufacturers for use down to a 3 12 pitch three inches of vertical rise for every foot of horizontal run. The positioning of your rafters will depend on the pitch of the porch roof.