How To Jack Up A Porch Roof

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How to jack up a porch roof.

Check to make sure the porch beam is level by raising or lowering the jack. Fortunately the adjustment i needed to make was a common size. I started by sitting the jack on the porch floor immediately above the porch s skirt board. Position a jack directly under the porch beam next to the column.

Measure from the porch beam to the jack and cut the 4 4 to just under this length. In this video i jack up the corner of porch roof so that i can successfully install a section of half round gutter. Put your level on the porch roof beam parallel to the front of the porch and that is probably what you ll find happened. Bird mouth the top cut and dig a small kicker in at the bottom of course i ll usually have post jacks in place somewhere so i can slightly jack up the roof to release the column.

Install another bracket in this position. Stand a post up in the bracket and hold a level on its side. I set it about a foot out from the house as not to interfere with where i needed to work on the column. Once it is plumb mark the position on the porch roof.

1 or 3 of a porch rework more buil. Position a mounting bracket at one of the marks on the bottom of the porch. Raise the sagging side back up where it belongs and you ll be able to install equal length posts. Using 8 x 8 x 8 half cinder blocks i build a column to support the jack i would use to raise the porch.

With this initially setup i was able to get about 7 8. The 4 ton jack that came with my ford transit van was more than sufficient to raise the porch a couple of inches. If that is the case don t bring the high side down like you did with the deck. The jack did all the work.