I bought a small cabin in East Texas. It needs quite a bit of work but i'm fairly handy and able. It has a covered front porch that is tied to the roof but has a smaller slope. The shingles began leaking at some point and the decking is rotted and needs to be replaced. I'm going to replace the roof as well so when i remove all the shingle i'll tackle this job. My question is, what is the proper way to tie on and transition a covered porch to an existing roof?
You'll have to be understanding with us. We haven't seen what you've got and you basically asked "how do I build a porch". We can help you with specific questions but I don't think any of us want to write detailed instructions for you since there are already many books & videos on the topic.
Unfortunately, this is the only picture i have at the moment. You can see the porch is in pretty bad shape. I'll be back out there in a week or so and i'll get some better pictures.
It looks like the main roof has a pitch of about 4:12 which is shallowest I personally like to do shingles. It looks like your porch is probably about 2:12 which might technically be steep enough to allow shingles but I think that's pushing it.
After rebuilding the porch I would consider covering the whole porch roof in ice & water shield and extend the ice & water up several feet onto the house roof. Then cover with singles in the normal manner. Getting the ice & water up a few feet under the house shingles is to provide extra protection for the transition between roof pitches. That's an area where leaves and debris tends to accumulate which traps and holds moisture and can sometimes cause water to back up underneath the shingles. That's where ice & water shield goes to work by providing another waterproof barrier.
You could also use rolled roofing on the porch roof. Unfortunately most rolled is about the lowest quality you can find so it's worthwhile to special order a better quality if you can. The porch roof could also be covered in a membrane like is done with flat roofs though that's not a good beginner DIY roofing project.
I recently had to demo my deck because it was very rotted. I want to replace it with simple wood stairs.
I've read a bit about how to attach a new ledger board, but have questions. First I have a slab foundation so there is no getting behind this area. I've read that I shouldn't just nail a ledger board, however that seems to be how it was attached previously. FWIW it seemed structurally fine, just rotted, the deck was otherwise stable (a small deck though).
There's a good 2-3 feet of brick veneer in this area. What would be behind this brick? At some point the slab must be there, but I don't think I have 2-3 feet of concrete slab. would it just be dirt behind those bottom bricks?
Now I want to attach a new ledger board to attach wood stairs to. How should I go about this?
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[i]See the original ledger board just below the door. I imagine this must overlap with the slab, but not 100%, and the boards extending to the ground seem too low to be in front of a slab.[/i]
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[i]Closer to the front of the house where the elevation is higher.[/i]
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[i]After all the boards have been removed.[/i]
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[i]Closer up of where the original ledger board was attached. Best I can tell it was just nailed into bricks.[/i]
I'm building a deck for a 30 ft above ground pool. The ground where I'm digging has about 6 in of soil then hard packed clay. I can't imagine that clay is going anywhere. I know code wants me to be at least 36 in down, but in reality if the holes are only 16 in deep and I place pavers and concrete in the bottom and concrete around the post will this cause me trouble in the future? I live in NY climate wise. The clay in the soil is like a rock, with the post hole digger I'm making about a quarter inch of headway each time.
07-21-22, 05:26 PM
