How To Make A Sloped Roof On A Shed

Fasten the metal roofing right to the rafters and beams with drywall screws.

How to make a sloped roof on a shed.

The greater roof slope sheds snow and water easily too. A slanted shed roof can easily be built if one of the walls of the shed stands taller than the opposite one. Of all the different types of roof the lean to is perhaps the easiest to build. Preplanning was essential to the build.

Once your walls are uneven you can build a slanted roof to fit. Put down your first sheet of plywood at the corner of one end of the roof. In the lower end of the rafter leg cut out. For their forming take a pine board with a thickness of 2 inches.

Drive a nail into each corner of the plywood to hold it in place temporarily. Place it at the ends of the outer wall on the pre fixed waterproofing material. Make sure it s lying horizontally across the exposed rafters and that the edges are flush with the edges of the end rafters. The approximate square foot measurement of the sloped roof is 50 square feet of area.

If both walls are the same height you can either raise one by adding plates to it or you can build a frame for the wall separately and then install this on top of the wall. In this case you have nothing more than a few carefully placed rafters that are laid on top of the outer walls. Building this single sloped roof shed was an excellent learning experience. I presently have ample space for storage and no squeak or bounce to the floor.

Screw the roofing material into the exterior side of the sloped roof of the shed. Mauerlat must be. The shed style allowed more windows near the high wall roofline which adds a lot of light.