Jacking Up A Garage Roof

Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up.

Jacking up a garage roof.

Inside the garage tack two 12 ft. This is intended to form an added protective layer helping to avoid any cracks occurring in the wood. Position the jack on the garage floor at one end of the wall. Place the jack back underneath the beam but this time under the iron piece.

Using the shorter post slowly lift up the roof on that side. 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. Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the roof.

From the garage floor. First perform step 2 except keep the string under your beam and off to the side a bit to make room for some framing. 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. You may remember my postings last year on.

Long 2 8 ledgers to the northeast and southeast walls about 2 ft. So i found myself having to jack up one corner of our front side porch roof. 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.

This is the 3 rd time we ve jacked up a portion of this house. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam. This time i was jacking the porch roof up so i could install my final and last portion of half round gutter.