Jacking Up A Garage Roof

Using the shorter post slowly lift up the roof on that side.

Jacking up a garage roof.

A rather simple method of jacking up ceiling joists to take sag out and putting in support lumber. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam. You can do this by guarding it using an angle iron piece. You may remember my postings last year on.

Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up. Long 2 8 ledgers to the northeast and southeast walls about 2 ft. Once the ledgers are up drive three double headed 16d form nails through the ledgers into each stud. First perform step 2 except keep the string under your beam and off to the side a bit to make room for some framing.

Once you have established how much the roof sag needs to be jacked up lay a 2x4 plate across the ceiling joists and nail directly under the ridge of the roof. Now add collar ties from one side of the rafter to the other. This time i was jacking the porch roof up so i could install my final and last portion of half round gutter. So i found myself having to jack up one corner of our front side porch roof.

Jacking up a porch roof at a sidewall. This is the 3 rd time we ve jacked up a portion of this house. From the garage floor. When it s up about an inch wedge the longer post in place to support the.

Position the jack on the garage floor at one end of the wall. Inside the garage tack two 12 ft. Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the roof.