Replacing Roof Rafters

1 enter house footprint.

Replacing roof rafters. The rotten wood will come away easily. October 09 2017 04 52 13 pm so i live in a smaller 2 story house my spouse and i had talked about adding on as sharing the bathroom with all the kids would eventually get old. Fill the seams where a rafter tail meets the cut end of a rafter with exterior wood filler. Use a hammer and nails to.

Cut off the rotted rafter tail with a reciprocating saw. 3 enter roof pitch slope. Most houses have overhangs soffits which are needed to protect the house exterior walls and. Cut a piece of 1 by pressure treated lumber that is longer than the replacement board by 4 to 6 inches.

If necessary enlist a roofing contractor to fill in the areas where shingles and roofing paper were removed. Roof pitch is the value. Use a tape measure to measure the entire width of your building. Install the new rafters.

Cut a replacement board from 2 by pressure treated lumber that is the same size and width as the rafter tail you just cut using a circular saw. Measure as precisely as possible down to the 1 4 inch 0 64 cm 1 8 inch 0 32 cm or 1 16 inch 0 16 cm. Replacing rafters with trusses on. Remove weak spongy wood preserve and protect wood wi.

Clamp the replacement beam to the wooden backboard at the rear of the eave enclosure to hold it in place. In some cases it may be necessary to remove a section of metal roof. Use your tape measure to record the. Measure the dimensions of the old rafters beneath your roofing surface.

Stupid idea of the week. 2 enter overhang length. Before you start cutting you first need to determine how long your roof rafters need to be and the angles at which you ll cut the top and bottom of the rafter. Discard the wood in a garbage bin as you work to.

Sand the filler and apply. Width or span is the gable side of the roof which is. Length is the roof eave gutter side. This video shows from start to finish the repair of rotted endbeams on a house using the endrot system.

Slide one of the newly cut rafter legs into position directly next to the old rafter. If the entire rafter was rotten use the. Remove the rotted wood with a chisel and pry bar. How to replace the rafters without removing the roof step 1.

When you ve successfully replaced one rafter it will be safe to begin removing the next one.