How To Frame A Roof Against A Brick Wall

When the roof of an addition garage porch or patio meets a brick wall the intersection creates a number of concerns.

How to frame a roof against a brick wall.

The roof flashing is then placed up behind this through the wall z bar flashing on the outside of the vertical blocking backing material. I would like to build a front porch all across the front of my house simple shed roof with perpendicular gable in center over door. In this video i teach you how to frame a 16 o c. Below are two photographs of roof wall step flashing completed and effective of a slate roof against a brick wall below left and in process with step flashing against a dormer sidewall before the dormer siding has been put in place below right.

The wall has many windows. Caulk the slot after the flashing has been installed. From bottom plates to top plates crowning studs and blocking for added rigidity. The roof framing itself in this.

I have a soft brick veneer covering my 2 story house in the northeast us built 1997. We go over the stu. This is part two of the porch build where i am doing the roof. Metal roof flashing can be use to seal gaps between roof walls.

Metal roof flashing is a galvanized sheet metal bent at right angles with about eight to 12 inches on each side of the angle. It is commonly used in two story and side split houses. Most simply use a nominal 6 piece of lumber. How to frame a roof against a brick wall.

Coat the wide side of a 2 by 4 inch wood stud with construction adhesive that is approved for bonding wood to masonry material such as brick. Chalk a straight line about 2 inches above the back of the base flashing. I was told that the brick is a softer brick when it was laid. The exterior wall covering material is then kept off the surface of the roof.

Press this stud horizontally along the bottom of the. Using the circular saw and masonry blade cut a slot about 1 5 inches into the brick so that the overlapping flashing or counter flashing will slide into the slot.