Shed Roof Attached To House

More often than not attached shed use lean to roofs because they are easier to build and allow water snow and all that stuff to drop easily instead of trooping between the shed roof and your house wall.

Shed roof attached to house.

However if you choose to build a freestanding shed and use this style of roof you should plan the slope of your roof in such a manner as to slope down from the front to the back of the shed. You save one of the walls. The roof is typically sloped down from the connecting wall if the shed is attached to the side of your house or garage. Depending very much on specific small house design its proportions and weather conditions of the location.

Rafters should be attached to the header beam using hurricane ties. If you are tying the shed roof into an existing roof on the house you will need to remove the shingles and sheathing to expose the roof framing. The ledger typically a 2 by 6 is usually designed to hold one end of the patio roof rafters. Locating and mounting the ledger is normally a fairly easy process.

Here are the main positives of building attached shed instead of a standalone one. A shed roof should slope at least 1 inch per foot but 2 or 3 inches will be better. Shed roof design combines advantages of gable roof and flat roof with beams spanning between two walls one of which is higher than the other one thus creating a slant usually ranging usually ranging from 7 to 35. Work from the height of the outside of the new shed roof.

A house attached patio roof takes advantage of the house s structure by supporting one end of the roof on a ledger mounted horizontally to the house. You will need to attach the porch rafters to the house roof rafters and replace the roofing and flashing.