The 4 ton jack that came with my ford transit van was more than sufficient to raise the porch a couple of inches.
How to jack up porch roof.
1 or 3 of a porch rework more buil.
This is the length in between each post.
Stand a post up in the bracket and hold a level on its side.
Position a jack directly under the porch beam next to the column.
Using a scrap piece of durock cement board i cranked the jack up to give it pressure enough to hold it in place.
Position the post and use the jack to raise the porch.
I started by sitting the jack on the porch floor immediately above the porch s skirt board.
Fortunately the adjustment i needed to make was a common size.
Measure from the porch beam to the jack and cut the 4 4 to just under this length.
Attach a short 2 x 6 board to the end of a 4 x 4 post.
Measure off the porch at intervals of 6 feet.
I set it about a foot out from the house as not to interfere with where i needed to work on the column.
Put your level on the porch roof beam parallel to the front of the porch and that is probably what you ll find happened.
To remove and replace a porch column.
If that is the case don t bring the high side down like you did with the deck.
Position a mounting bracket at one of the marks on the bottom of the porch.
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