Jacking Up A Flat Roof

Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up.

Jacking up a flat roof.

So i found myself having to jack up one corner of our front side porch roof. First perform step 2 except keep the string under your beam and off to the side a bit to make room for some framing. Jacking up a porch roof at a sidewall. Now add collar ties from one side of the rafter to the other.

This time i was jacking the porch roof up so i could install my final and last portion of half round gutter. Roof repair kits come with all the supplies you need to patch up a roof. While few of us are interested in jacking up an entire house complete with cribs girders timbers and everything else you need in order to lift a house off the ground there are a number of foolhardy souls among us who feel the need to jack up a portion of the house in order to insert an extra tier or beam for repairs or to level an old sloping floor. Once you have established how much the roof sag needs to be jacked up lay a 2x4 plate across the ceiling joists and nail directly under the ridge of the roof.

Many of them include caulk for sealing cracks as well as patches for treating larger areas of damage on the roof membrane. Place the jack back underneath the beam but this time under the iron piece. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam. You will need to get up into your attic and examine the roof carefully in order to discover the underlying cause.

Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the roof. Jacking can mean different things. In most cases a sagging roof is caused either by a broken rafter or roof decking but in some more severe instances a damaged or sinking foundation can be the underlying cause of the problem. This is the 3 rd time we ve jacked up a portion of this house.

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