Plunge Cut Roof Overhang

Deep plunge cut on each side of the post.

Plunge cut roof overhang. Overhangs play a role in directing rainfall. I need to cut 1 foot off of a 2ft overhang in order to add a shed roof under the overhang. When you nail sheathing on the gable end and overhang take special care not to miss the rafters. An eave is the roof edge s underside and it may be open or enclosed with soffit creating a horizontal plane giving the eave a finished look.

I would like to cut it back to about 16 all the way around or at least on the gable ends of the roof this is were it looks like overkill. I have a customer that i am doing some work for on a pool house. Then the box beams were trimmed out photograph 8 and a double frieze board installed to hide the increase in roof thickness without requiring redoing the gable end siding photograph 9. The roof is a metal r panel over full 1 t g pine on 2x4 rafters.

Start by making a 1 in. Because this style of a shed has a flat roof it can facilitate a wider overhang which is ideal for storage. I have a 2 overhang all the way around the house it s a very small house so the overhang makes it look even smaller and kind of ugly. A common nailing schedule for a roof is 6 6 12 6 in.

Cuts until soil pulled from underneath the slab tells you the concrete has been breached. With a flat shed roof the roof simply extends past the wall plate to provide an overhang. The size of the roof overhang you choose depends largely on the style of your shed s roof. Make successively deeper 1 in.

So i want to know if there is a way to cut back the overhang to about 16 or maybe even a little more and not have to re roof and if so how. The tin was just recently replaced so removing it is not an option. Is it possible to cut back the roof overhang without having to re roof. To begin cutting out the old floor mark the size of the new footing and cut the outline with a circular saw fitted with a diamond masonry blade.

Here phil explains how much overhang a roof should have at the gutter. The overhangs on the gable ends were cut off rigid insulation added to the top photograph 6 and then the overhangs rebuilt as box beams photograph 7. The amount of desired roof overhang determines where you cut the rafter tails when finishing out this roof area.