Check your local building codes before beginning construction.
How to tie in front porch roof.
With the beams in place you will now have the outline structure for the roof frame.
Build support columns to help support the weight of your porch roof.
It will be an open gable that will tie into the existing house roof about 14x14.
Attach the horizontal beam by using a nail gun.
Step 3 tie together the 4x4 beams.
Put 4x4 beams against the house also having these four feet apart from each other.
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If attaching a patio roof to a ledger beneath the eaves does not allow for enough headroom you can set the new patio roof s rafters on the wall s top plate.
If you have a square porch you need.
Find the wall studs or roof trusses that will have to support the ledger.
How to attach a porch roof to a house.
Acquire any necessary building permits before starting work.
Butt the first new truss against the old one.
Then mount new trusses on the new addition walls.
Make a cutting on one of the sides of the horizontal roof beam on an angle.
On a two story house you can usually tie the ledger into a band joist also called a rim joist located between the floors as shown below.
Determine how high it must be to provide an adequate slope to the roof.
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It will be an open gable that will tie into the existing house roof about 14x14.
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After that to make it flush with the roof of the existing house cut the two outer rafters.
With either nails or using the mounting brackets attach the beams to the floor boards of the porch.
Make it the full width of the porch or slightly wider depending on your porch design.