How To Remove A Wooden Gable Garage Roof

Slide the split ends of the hammer under and around the nail.

How to remove a wooden gable garage roof.

Be careful not to damage any nearby roof shingles or flashing. Pull down to remove the old soffit. Pull the old rafter end away from the roof eave. This can easily be accomplished by using a hammer and a crowbar.

This is where your wooden dowels will insert into the wood. Change a rotten or damaged fascia board. Hold the replacement against the end of the remaining rafter. Refrain from pulling out the structural nails that are not flush to the surface.

Cut out the section of the roofing. Use the split end of a claw hammer to pry out nails still holding bits of shingles onto the roof. Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up. Make two lines on the side of the replacement rafter end and the end of the rafter 1 inch from the top and bottom edges.

Remove the rotted section of fascia. Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the roof. Remove leftover debris from the roof. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam.

It was very easy. If it comes off without splitting reuse it later. Step 1 remove the existing roof the first step when removing a wood roof truss is to disassemble the existing roof that is causing a load upon the truss. Remove an area of the roof shingles from the edge of the roof to the upper line of the overhang using a 16 inch nail bar and hammer to pull the roofing nails.

Lever the split end of the hammer up to pull the nail out of the roof.