Hi,
I have a ranch style house that I would liketo have a covered front porch. At the monent there is no porch.
Hi,
I have a ranch style house that I would liketo have a covered front porch. At the monent there is no porch.
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One way to do it is to rebuild the main roof, moving the peak towards the viewer, to fill out that rectangle. Of course, this would make the roof proportionally taller (and would cost more than $7).
Easy enough to do. The outside edge of the porch roof is, at a minimum a height fixed at the current soffit level. You could go higher but it would look funny. So from the outside line of your porch go up the roof to a point that creates enough pitch for good drainage. At that point nail down a 2 X 12" parallel to to th eedge of the roof and cut rafters to fit from the top of the 2 X 12' down to the new porch beam and out to the edge of the soffit. You'll probably have too little pitch for shingles so you will have to use rofo ing appropriate for a flat deck. I've done some really large porches using this technique.
MB
Do a sketch down at street level, try pair of shed roofs hipped at the corner.
Where are you located?EDIT: I see you're in Fla. This for shade?Is this the house you/someone wanted to attach a pergola to the overhang? If so, sketch a flat roof and play with the thickness, perhaps with a hipped apron up to what's pleasing to the eye.
Yeah, I though it looked familiar -- same house.
Yes, you're right. I'm determind to get a place to hang out at front. I'm a big love of front porches. We close on it next month. We would like to have a good idea of what we want when we bid it out. It has to able to work some way.
I'll play around with it overnight and post the pics. Thanks for your help, suggestions and opinions.
Mike