Extending Roof Eves

Water runs off the roof and floods our basement with almost every storm.

Extending roof eves. The cost of extending my 30 foot long roof overhang 14 inches was 340 or 11 50 per running foot for materials. Mike guertin details 2 reliable methods for extending the eaves on a house to shed rainwater better. The outer ends of a roof s rafters the sloped members that give the roof its pitch provide shade divert rain and create soffit space for attic ventilation. Our house was built without eaves or overhangs.

A good estimate for a contractor to do this same roof overhang extension would range from 50 to 85 per running foot. This cost did not include any labor or waste disposal fees. In wood frame construction the primary structural members of a gabled roof frame are the ridge board and the rafters. We also added blocking along the valley on both sides to support the edges of the sheathing.

Start with the rafter tails the main component of any eaves detail is the rafter tail the part of the rafter that extends beyond the exterior wall. A gable roof consists of two sloped planes that meet at the ridge or peak and rest on the top plates of 2 parallel exterior walls. How to extend rafters. Extending a gable roof can be tricky since it involves working on the roof but you may be able to do it yourself if you only need to add 1 2 2 inches 1 3 5 1 cm.

I recently built a small outbuilding with a 6 in 12 pitch roof that offers a perfect example for showing the process i use to build eaves and rakes. If the lower section of the roof rafters or rafter tail extends beyond the exterior wall the projection forms an overhang or. We resolved the eaves by extending the line of the porch subfascia over to the tail of the last common rafter below the shed roof overhang. This gets snow and ice drip line farther away from the building walls without the danger of the metal roofing bending under the weight.

Some metal roofs have wood framed eaves that extend several inches or a foot beyond the house or shed wall to support metal roofing. How do i add eaves to my house.