Roof Over Front Steps

We show you the steps involved and calculations required for buildng a roof for your porch or constructing one over your deck or patio.

Roof over front steps.

We show you how both a typical rafter style porch and truss roof area constructed. A gable roof with its end parapet walls below extended slightly upwards and shaped to resemble steps. When building a roof over outside stairs there are several areas of construction that must be addressed such as structural concerns for the roof. Be careful not to get paint on the shingles or drip edge.

A front entry is a prime location to splurge on attractive decorating features. We chose to paint most of ours the main house color with the exception of the face fascia trim around the front and above the roof that we painted our trim color. Pitch ratios range from 2 12 to 12 12. With these front entry decorating ideas you don t need much to achieve a polished look and impress potential buyers in the future.

The last step in our process for how to build a gable roof over a front door is to paint all the wood. A frame half hipped clipped gable. Building a porch roof requires basic carpentry and porch roof framing knowledge. A combination of a gable and a hip roof pitched roof without changes to the walls with the hipped part at the top and the gable section.

The pitch of a roof is the rise the vertical angle of the roof over the run the horizontal measurement. Choose a few attention grabbing elements such as stylish outdoor lighting a richly stained wooden front door or colorful step tiles. See also roof pitch crow stepped corbie stepped stepped gable.