Jacking Up A Garage Roof

From the garage floor.

Jacking up a garage roof. You can do this by guarding it using an angle iron piece. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam. Long 2 8 ledgers to the northeast and southeast walls about 2 ft. This time i was jacking the porch roof up so i could install my final and last portion of half round gutter.

Now add collar ties from one side of the rafter to the other. Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up. Using the shorter post slowly lift up the roof on that side. Place the jack back underneath the beam but this time under the iron piece.

This is intended to form an added protective layer helping to avoid any cracks occurring in the wood. Jacking up a porch roof at a sidewall. First perform step 2 except keep the string under your beam and off to the side a bit to make room for some framing. Once you have established how much the roof sag needs to be jacked up lay a 2x4 plate across the ceiling joists and nail directly under the ridge of the roof.

A rather simple method of jacking up ceiling joists to take sag out and putting in support lumber. You should obtain a piece that measures 1 2 with sides that measure 4 in length and an overall length of the entire piece being a minimum of 2 feet. Position the jack on the garage floor at one end of the wall. So i found myself having to jack up one corner of our front side porch roof.

You may remember my postings last year on. When it s up about an inch wedge the longer post in place to support the. Once the ledgers are up drive three double headed 16d form nails through the ledgers into each stud.