How To Build A Slanted Metal Porch Roof

This is part two of the porch build where i am doing the roof.

How to build a slanted metal porch roof. Using lag bolts and a screwdriver fasten the base of the posts to the ground. Place the first screw. Install temporary bracing to keep the support posts level and in place. In the lower end of the rafter leg cut out.

Place it at the ends of the outer wall on the pre fixed waterproofing material. Install the roofing screws vertically along each rib in the panel. At the first stage the mauerlat is installed. Notice that the tops of the 6x6 support posts are notched to hold the header beam.

For their forming take a pine board with a thickness of 2 inches. Use thru bolts for a solid and strong connection. Install the 2 2x10 header beams to the notched 6x6 support posts. Significantly cheaper to build than a gable or multi slope roof since there s less material in the roof.

Measure the sightline clearance height from the roof to the house not the other way around. You can either remove the eave or just keep it. Basically a slanted roof style is a flat roof tilted high up at one edge to create a very steep slope. Install the header beam.

This meant the patio cover could start at the edge of the house s roof at a height of eight feet and slope down to seven feet leaving a clearance of more than six and a half feet between the lowest part of the frame s headers and the ground at its outer edge. Using corrugated metal also allows me to reduce the degree of slope or roof pitch needed to a mere 10 percent or a 1 to 10 pitch. Mauerlat must be. I show how i construct it showning in detail how to do the lead flashing.

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