I drilled a 1 hole in center at the bottom of the post about deep.
How to temporarily support a porch roof.
Stakes go down about 18 to 24.
Generally the roofers have their own methods to determine the approximate number of beams or temporary wooden supports that would hold the available area of porch roof.
Temporarily support the porch roof on either side of the rotted post with a hydraulic jack and a long 2x4 post.
Use a reciprocating saw to cut the top of the post free from the overhead beam.
Measure for posts large 8 x 8 posts are necessary for the use of supporting a porch roof.
For my temporary support i ganged together two 2x4s and added a scrap from those boards to the top to create a sorta header.
Bring in the temporary beams and install them in place.
Temporarily supporting porch roof i usually slam two 2x6 s together in a sandwich and pepper them with nails.
From typical porch layouts the columns at the corners and depending on the length you may have additional columns coming down along the length of the porch that provide the load support for the.
How to support a porch roof step 1.
Determine how much support is needed your porch roof will need to have a lot of support in order for it to stay.
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Temporarily supporting porch roof i ve seen idiots try to jack things up with a bottle jack and 2 2x6s nailed together like a double and that post will bend i ve shown them a 2x4 t post and it lifted the load no problem.
Cut beams to.
Make sure that the beams support the roof well and are not left loose or wobbling.
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.
This would accept the jack s saddle so that the temp post wouldn t dance off of and from the jack.