How To Support Porch Roof While Working On It
Bird mouth the top cut and dig a small kicker in at the bottom of course i ll usually have post jacks in place somewhere so i can slightly jack up the roof to release the column.
How to support porch roof while working on it. Temporarily supporting porch roof i usually slam two 2x6 s together in a sandwich and pepper them with nails. Continue installing porch. In raising the roof i knew was going to have to reset the roof s flashing as it meets a sidewall of the house. With the roof supported you can do the repair work.
Ft collins co usa. Then measure on the ground out in front of the porch from one corner taking the tape measure to half of whatever the height of your eaves was. Things to consider with jack up a porch roof the prep. Your porch roof will need to have a lot of support in order for it to stay up through the seasons.
Measure the height from the ground to the eaves under your porch. It comes as a set that includes a rope roof anchor harness and lanyard for adjusting the tension of the rope. Determine how much support is needed. So to begin i removed the existing counter flashing running about 5 courses up this was as easy as finding nails and prying.
Cut beams to fit. In this video i jack up the corner of porch roof so that i can successfully install a section of half round gutter. From typical porch layouts the columns at the corners and depending on the length you may have additional columns coming down along the length of the porch that provide the load support for the roof. How to support a porch roof.
Stakes go down about 18 to 24. Without a picture i m guessing but it would be best to put a temporary beam under the roof side to side and adequate temporary support columns under the ends of the beam with some diagonal bracing. A roofing harness provides the extra security you need when working on such a roof. They will either be attached to the box frame creating the floor that the deck lays on top of or they will go straight down into the ground.