The soffit is a horizontal covering on the underside of the porch roof overhang that encloses the space between the porch walls or supports and the ends of the roof rafters.
Supporting an overhanging front porch roof.
Although a porch roof s overhang gives a house an ornamental touch the overhang isn t just decorative.
While many like to use the smaller 4 x 4 posts they can tend to warp after they have been standing under the weight for several seasons.
Then measure on the ground out in front of the porch from one corner taking the tape measure to half of whatever the height of your eaves was.
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It helps to keep rain and sun off the porch and protects the structure of the building from.
If our example roof has only one beam it must carry half of the total load or 4 000 pounds.
Measure the distance between the bottom of the porch roof and the top of the ledger beams of the porch.
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So i found myself having to jack up one corner of our front side porch roof.
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If there is also a beam in the middle of the roof divide the total load by three.
If one side of the roof is supported by the house and the other side is supported by the beam divide the total load by two as the beam is only supporting half of the roof.
Measure the height from the ground to the eaves under your porch.
Repeat from the other end of the porch.
Cut beams to fit.
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This is the 3 rd time we ve jacked up a portion of this house.
Jacking up a porch roof at a sidewall.