Roof Framing That Your Gutter Attaches To

The fascia board that dresses the front of your roof eaves provides a convenient and sturdy substrate for gutter installation.

Roof framing that your gutter attaches to.

Its easy less than 30 minutes and under 30 00 in parts. The porch roof may match the pitch of your home or have a more shallow roof pitch. The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. A vertical pipe where water goes through from gutters and roof catchments to the drainage.

Box like parallel and rectangular rain gutter usually concealed behind a parapet. Position the rafters on top of the sill plate. Attaches the gutter to the downspout. Use screws to secure the rafter to the sill plate.

Using a pitch measuring tool that i d made we also determined that the exact pitch of the shed roof was 3 1 2 in 12. If you re framing a gable roof on a new house or building a shed or even a doghouse with a gable roof you ll need to cut a number of roof rafters. The positioning of your rafters will depend on the pitch of the porch roof. Attaching a gutter to metal roofing is a simple process so long as you have the wood rafter tails to screw gutter brackets into.

Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. Boards under the high point and just above the roof framing. To keep the porch roof framing as simple as possible we installed a structural ridge supported by posts at each end with the common rafters landing on top of the ridge. Drip edge or edge metal is a piece of metal that extends approximately 0 75 inch beyond the roof s edge to channel runoff into your gutters.

Joist hangers can help you mount each rafter to the house. Quality gutter installation usually makes use of fascia gutter brackets. Blind valleys simplify framing. Now drill the remaining holes and install the rivets.

Gutters over flows add downspout to bring water down from roof faster. Watch and learn how and stop. Rivet the sections join the gutter to the corner with six rivets in the locations shown. To install it slide the flat wide flange underneath.