Building this single sloped roof shed was an excellent learning experience.
How to build addition to sloping roof.
Re lay the shingles you removed from the existing roof.
Attach a board uncut to the settle rafters on which you need to lay a vapor barrier material film construction.
Use ladders or scaffolding if you are building the roof onto a building that is still a frame.
It s easy for the contractor to build and easy on the homeowner s budget says schultz but it makes the new space look like an obvious add on.
Simply build a short wall directly on top of one of the walls to make it taller.
Attach home addition roof framing existing.
Nail an aluminum drip edge in place before shingling the sloped roof.
This is the simplest solution a single slope that s attached to the original house at the high point and slants down to the outer wall of the addition.
Tying porch roof shed into existing ask.
Joints are sealed with vapor barrier.
Stack insulation boards on the film top.
To complete this step the wall frames of the building must already be level plumb and square.
Attach patio roof existing house.
Bed the end of each shingle in a 2 in wide ribbon of roofing cement placed 4 in.
Add covered patio roof existing line.
The gable roof on the porch addition was framed with a dropped structural ridge supporting the common rafters above.
If the walls have been built and they are all the same height that isn t a problem.
The insulation thickness of 8 inches is laid as a flat carpet.
Again choosing the easy way out we opted to build blind valleys aka california valleys where one intersecting roof is built on top of the other.
23 cool how to attach a roof to an existing roof.
Sometimes the highest wall is built taller with the sloped roof in mind.
This creates a solid foundation.
Add an ice and water barrier over the sheathing and along the eaves and you are ready for your first layer of shingles.
Preplanning was essential to the build.
To make the blind valleys we attached sleepers to the shed roof locating them.
Attach home addition roof framing existing.
Hoist the trusses onto the roof.
Up from the valley center.
This can be done either with many pairs of hands or with the assistance of a crane.
Plywood sheathing material across the top of and covering the rafters.
Shingle the addition roof letting the new shingles fold through the valley center and onto the old roof deck by at least 1 ft.
Adding gable roof existing ideas.
I presently have ample space for storage and no squeak or bounce to the floor.
When building a structure that has a sloped roof the walls need to be of different height so that the roof isn t flat.
Apply cdx 5 8 in.
The shed style allowed more windows near the high wall roofline which adds a lot of light.
