Shed Roof Framing House Deck

I wanted a place that i could use for relaxing purposes.

Shed roof framing house deck.

Nail the soffit to the roof frame with 6d galvanized box nails. Fastening to masonry walls. The most common styles are gable hip and shed. Don t forget to cut the ends of each board to the appropriate angle to allow them to fit together at the peak.

Roof framing is one of those carpenter skills that appears quite complicated and indeed some roof designs are difficult. Set the roof panel aside and build the other half of the roof using the same techniques. We used 12 in wide fiber cement siding for soffit material. Consider including an ice and water barrier too.

The simplest method and one that would work well against a two story house is a lean to type of roof. Simply put a couple of posts in the corners of the deck farthest from the building with a header between them and add rafters up to the roof of the building or attached to a ledger fastened to the wall of the building. Adding a roof to your deck is best done as the deck is being built. Now that the walls are rigid from the structural sheathing we re going to tackle the framing the roof.

Shed roofs project as a single plane roof pitched away from the house. If you plan to have eaves to protect the shed walls make sure you add the extra length when measuring the rafters. I can barbecue or sleep on it. Roofs are basically five types.

Skillion shed style roof framing. If you re planning on building a gable roof with a pitch of 4 12 for a shed that s 200 inches 510 cm wide your rafter boards would need to be 105 3 inches 267 cm long on each side. Shed gable hip gambrel and mansard. If you are tying the roof directly to a house wall you can install a ledger board with flashing and install rafter ties to attach the rafters at the appropriate angles or use engineered trusses.

Here is a video of a shed i built that has a rooftop deck. We re going to use 2x8 lumber to make the roof frame. Mount an inexpensive carbide blade on your circular saw to cut the fiber cement. Drill holes for the expanding anchors every 16 inches or as specified by local codes insert the anchors hold the ledger in place and tap it with a hammer to indent the anchor locations on its back face.

Anchor a ledger to a masonry wall with expanding anchor bolts begin by marking a line across the wall for the ledger s top edge. The skillion and shed style roofs are framed with a single slope 2 4 or 2 6 or thicker rafters spanning from the low wall to the high wall.