How To Put A Roof Above My Porch
Stand a post up in the bracket and hold a level on its side.
How to put a roof above my porch. Use 2 inch wood screws. These boards are the roof support boards. Hand framing a porch roof involves first setting the ridge beam and the side walls to the proper height that the roof will hang from. Position a mounting bracket at one of the marks on the bottom of the porch.
Most porch roofs use 2x6 or 2x8 rafters that form an upside down v across the ridge beam. Screw these boards into the 144 inch boards perpendicularly. 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. The rafters can be attached 16 on center to the ridge beam using rafter ties.
Once it is plumb mark the position on the porch roof. Attach a 96 by 6 by 1 inch pine board to each chalk line on the 144 inch boards connecting the two 144 inch boards.