How To Remove A Wooden Gable Garage Roof

Be careful not to damage any nearby roof shingles or flashing.

How to remove a wooden gable garage roof.

Lever the split end of the hammer up to pull the nail out of the roof. Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up. Remove leftover debris from the roof. This is where your wooden dowels will insert into the wood.

Refrain from pulling out the structural nails that are not flush to the surface. Use the split end of a claw hammer to pry out nails still holding bits of shingles onto the roof. Remove an area of the roof shingles from the edge of the roof to the upper line of the overhang using a 16 inch nail bar and hammer to pull the roofing nails. Place the jack back underneath the beam but this time under the iron piece.

Slide the split ends of the hammer under and around the nail. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam. Pull the old rafter end away from the roof eave. Pry the narrow shingle mold from the fascia using a flat bar.

Step 1 remove the existing roof the first step when removing a wood roof truss is to disassemble the existing roof that is causing a load upon the truss. Cut out the section of the roofing. Hold the replacement against the end of the remaining rafter. Make two lines on the side of the replacement rafter end and the end of the rafter 1 inch from the top and bottom edges.

Remove the rotted section of fascia. It was very easy. Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the roof. Change a rotten or damaged fascia board.

You can install a new fascia board in a couple of hours with the right tools to d.