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How to tie in front porch roof.
Put 4x4 beams against the house also having these four feet apart from each other.
Locate a position for a header or ledger board.
Step 3 tie together the 4x4 beams.
Check your local building codes before beginning construction.
Make it the full width of the porch or slightly wider depending on your porch design.
It will be an open gable that will tie into the existing house roof about 14x14.
After that to make it flush with the roof of the existing house cut the two outer rafters.
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With the beams in place you will now have the outline structure for the roof frame.
Build support columns to help support the weight of your porch roof.
Find the wall studs or roof trusses that will have to support the ledger.
If you have a square porch you need.
Butt the first new truss against the old one.
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.
Make a cutting on one of the sides of the horizontal roof beam on an angle.
Tie into the end of an existing gable roof by removing existing facing boards wall siding and any other obstructions back to the first truss of the old roof.
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If attaching a patio roof to a ledger beneath the eaves does not allow for enough headroom you can set the new patio roof s rafters on the wall s top plate.
Then mount new trusses on the new addition walls.
Acquire any necessary building permits before starting work.
You have to do it thoroughly so that the rafters sit flush on it.
How to attach a porch roof to a house.
Attach the horizontal beam by using a nail gun.