Determine how much support is needed.
How to support porch roof while working on it.
Things to consider with jack up a porch roof the prep.
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They will either be attached to the box frame creating the floor that the deck lays on top of or they will go straight down into the ground.
Your porch roof will need to have a lot of support in order for it to stay up through the seasons.
From typical porch layouts the columns at the corners and depending on the length you may have additional columns coming down along the length of the porch that provide the load support for the roof.
With the roof supported you can do the repair work.
Measure the height from the ground to the eaves under your porch.
Continue installing porch.
Without a picture i m guessing but it would be best to put a temporary beam under the roof side to side and adequate temporary support columns under the ends of the beam with some diagonal bracing.
Put a stake there in the grass.
Then measure on the ground out in front of the porch from one corner taking the tape measure to half of whatever the height of your eaves was.
Cut beams to fit.
1 or 3 of a porch rework more buil.
How to support a porch roof.
Temporarily supporting porch roof i usually slam two 2x6 s together in a sandwich and pepper them with nails.
Stakes go down about 18 to 24.
It comes as a set that includes a rope roof anchor harness and lanyard for adjusting the tension of the rope.
In raising the roof i knew was going to have to reset the roof s flashing as it meets a sidewall of the house.
In this video i jack up the corner of porch roof so that i can successfully install a section of half round gutter.
Repeat from the other end of the porch.