How To Build A Patio Roof
Pre-drill the batten with your driver and then screw the batten to every rafter of the pergola.
How to build a patio roof. After all of hard work. An inside look as to how I came to build myself a patio cover. Beam and cross braced with 2x4s to prevent swaying in both directions.
Depending on the lengths of the rafters and width of the patio Spans you will support the upper roof structure temporarily with 2x4s for posts screwed to 2x 810. Im after some advice. Hammer a nail halfway in on both ends of the face of roof 100mm up from the bottom edge of the plywood and snap a chalk line.
The ledger typically a 2 by 6 is usually designed to hold one end of the patio. Put a cement footing at each corner of the intended patio roof space and attach anchors to each footing. I have an outdoor metal patio with single sheet metal roof.
The existing concrete slab creates the angled floor of the patio and the roof line is built to match it and the odd lines of the house. Step 2 - Construct the Vertical Posts. Once ensured the sheet is of the proper size apply the Vented aluminum tape on the bottom of the width side and Solid Aluminum tape on the top of the width side.
Use a spacer to show you where your next batten. Click here for an update to this video. Measure the area where you want to install the patio roof cover.
Overlap the drip edge material 100mm at the joins. Now Its time to start applying the first sheet on the roof. We would like to enclose a section with a room and the other area with half colour bond and drop down screens.