How To Start A Pitched Roof

Use a roofing nail 1 to tack the drip edge down one every 10 when placing two pieces of drip edge together overlap one end over the other by 1 and secure using two roofing nails one in the back and one in the front.

How to start a pitched roof.

If your eave is one straight length then pick an end and work to the other. This is part two of the porch build where i am doing the roof. Completing all the rows till top of room will complete your pitched room. The 2 by 4 should be about 2 feet longer than the tarp width.

That is to say the roof pitch expressed as a ratio tells you how many inches the roof rises for every 12 inches of depth. Gable end roof construction if the pitched roof is not a lean to but a normal gable roof we have to divide the total roof span by two in order to form two right angle triangles back to back. You can start from the bottom of roof and move upward towards the roof top. To be fully effective it should extend up the roof to a point at least 24 inside the vertical extension of the interior side of the wall.

Screw the 2 by 4 directly into the roof to secure it. Express roof pitch as the ratio of the amount of the vertical rise of a roof or rise over the corresponding horizontal distance or run you write the pitch assuming a run of 12 inches thus the ratio would describe how much a roof rises for each foot of the run. By knowing the span of the roof and the pitch the pitch is the angle at which the rafters rise we can work out the length of the rafters. Start by applying the drip edge to the eaves of your roof.

After gathering all required materials and tools it s time to start the construction process for your pitched roof. As a rule of thumb you will first need to build the walls and floor before you can start to build the shed trusses. I show how i construct it showning in detail how to do the lead flashing. As aforementioned there is no standard pitch of a roof.

1 2 the total span is equal to the horizontal span that one rafter will cover. Then fold the excess tarp under a few rotations for a tight clean fit. Next on the peak side attach the tarp to the 2 by 4 using cap nails. At this time any valleys on the roof should also be flashed with an ice and water membrane.

So let s say a roof rises 6 inches for every 12 inches in depth towards the peak. You can build your own shed trusses by using a standard jig.