Looking forward to the tie in too. I'm planning a porch the length of my house and I'm pretty sure how I'm gonna do it, but I like seeing how others do it.
Pretty sure you are one story as well as I? The people with two story homes have it made for big covered patios / porches. Mine being a hip roof and an inside corner makes this much more difficult than the average patio roof.
If that patio door were a few feet to the left I'd almost consider leaving part of the patio uncovered and do a dormer type roof all the way off the peak. You could have an open area for grills or whatever. Your roof is already a shallow pitch. It's not going to be easy that's for sure.
Funny you mention that... I almost started the covered portion of the patio on the other side of the sliding door so I could just do a hip or gable style roof, I would then have avoided the nightmare that is that inside corner. The reason why we didn't is the concrete goes all the way over to the AC unit... I did not want to pay to have the unit moved to make the patio larger. If I had done it that way the covered portion of the patio woud have been 11' shorter dropping it down to around 19' long. Just not big enough for what we want.
I am. That's one of the reasons we choose the 7-12 pitch roof. I want to put an 8 foot full length porch on the front of the house and possibly punch some dormers in too, giving it more of a Cape look. I've done some jobs with porch roofs off of lesser pitches and they havent been fun.
Well, I got a good portion of it knocked out today.... My goal was to get it all framed and get the OSB and the felt laid. A guy I know is in a bad spot for cash so I offered to pay him to give me a hand today. Well, he was a no show so I was solo today. Good news is I got everything on my want to do list done today except for the felt. It was a good day for rolling solo. I also had two rain delays this morning.... My day started with a very wet and muddy morning. Made walking back and forth to my material not so much fun. First set of photos I took after I cut and removed the gutters and drip edge, I got the 4x4's cut down to the proper length, the girders attached to the 4x4's, attached 2x6's attached to my homes fascia, a few joist hangers screwed on and a few rafters laid out, cut and installed. Here is what I used to attach the girders to the 4x4 posts. I used headlok screws. They are an awesome product. They are made to replace lag bolts.... They zip right in... Here is a photo of the birds mouth and girder. Here all of the rafters are installed. Next I chalked a line along the bottom of the rafters after I determined what I wanted the dimension of my soffit overhang to be. I went with 19" so my fascia after the fascia board is installed will line up with the corner of my house. I then plumbed that line up so I could cut them. This photo shows my layout to cut the rafters. Here it is cut. I did not precut them to length because there is some in and out on my homes fascia and I did not want my work to have the same imperfections. Next came fascia board installation.... Plumb and straight! Now the OSB gets laid. The view down the valley. View toward the valley. How I tackled my inside corner / valley. View from underneath up at the rafters and OSB. Two views where I left off for the evening. Next step is to lay the felt. Still waiting on the drip edge, aluminum fascia, soffit, F mold, shingles and gutter to come in. None of it was in stock at Lowes because I need brown. I also need to go buy two screen doors and a few rolls of screen so I can get this screened in.
Early on in this thread you mentioned the "S" word.... SNOW. Should you get much you better plan on brooming off the roof. LOL However, I'm afraid of snow. You don't get it like we do. LOL
I ran it through a snow load calculator from Cornell earlier and it came up at 25.2 spf, 25spf is recommended for my area.
When you get done with that... you want to come over and build a small back porch with steps for me so I can keep the wife happy ?? I let you see my bucks and play with my big sheds in return while you're here. :p Tim
