Jacking Up A Flat Roof

Jacking up a porch roof at a sidewall.

Jacking up a flat roof. Now add collar ties from one side of the rafter to the other. Place the jack back underneath the beam but this time under the iron piece. First perform step 2 except keep the string under your beam and off to the side a bit to make room for some framing. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam.

Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the 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. So i found myself having to jack up one corner of our front side porch roof. Jacking can mean different things.

This time i was jacking the porch roof up so i could install my final and last portion of half round gutter. Getting a kit means you don t have to hunt down the individual components you need for a repair. This is the 3 rd time we ve jacked up a portion of this house. 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.

Many of them include caulk for sealing cracks as well as patches for treating larger areas of damage on the roof membrane. Roof repair kits come with all the supplies you need to patch up a roof. You may remember my postings last year on. You will need to get up into your attic and examine the roof carefully in order to discover the underlying cause.

These are steel anchors that fasten to your roof and hold planks of wood for you to walk on.