Building an addition on a house requires connecting two roofs whether the new space is a wing of living areas or a carport.
House where roof intercepts into wall.
The exterior of a house presents plenty of opportunity for leaks.
Often with new construction the roof flashing is first nailed to the wall.
A building s overall height location structural type use roof slope and shape need to be considered in the development of the detailing of the roof to wall interface.
In general terms the roof and wall design must be capable of resisting the fundamental forces as outlined by the applicable building code.
If you decide on a shallow pitch porch roof use 2 by 6 foot rafters.
This type of roof provides more options for extending the loft and installing windows allowing a greater amount of natural light into the room.
There are many roof.
The positioning of your rafters will depend on the pitch of the porch roof.
A half hipped roof is almost identical to a simple hip roof design but instead the two sides of the roof are shortened creating eaves at the either side of the house.
And in our experience when a single piece of flashing extends only a few inches under the shingles especially on a long roof slope and worse on a roof that happens to slope slightly towards rather than away from the abutting vertical building wall the accumulated roof drainage water near the bottom end of the roof wall intersection will.
Then the house wrap and exterior wall covering are installed over this roof flashing.
The porch roof may match the pitch of your home or have a more shallow roof pitch.
How to tie building roof systems into one another.
Use screws to secure the rafter to the sill plate.
These relate to how high the roof is from the rest of the house rise and compare this to width or length of the house from corner to corner run or span along a single wall.
It is the element that allows a delineated space to transform into one that feels protected.
Joist hangers can help you mount each rafter to the house.
Unless you re careful step flashing can allow water from the roof to slip behind the gutter and get behind the siding and even the housewrap.
A key part of my approach is using a special piece of flashing at this.
The roof is one of the most essential structural elements of nearly every construction.
A common problem area is the point where a gutter dies into an adjoining wall as the photo below illustrates.
