A patio cover can be a nice addition to your home and can be useful as a functional piece of furniture.
Building a patio cover.
An inside look as to how i came to build myself a patio cover.
The roof will be constructed using multi core galvalume metal roofing.
Plus it s much easier to build a patio cover when it doesn t need to attach to your house.
The posts will be attached to the slab using.
When you are building a patio cover off of an existing roof or wall you must take all of your measurements from the point at which the patio roof will attach to the existing structure not the outside of the slab.
Building a patio cover a free standing example.
Yes a permit was required.
How to build a patio cover part 1.
The new patio cover will be built using western red cedar 4x6 posts 4x6 beams and 2x6 rafters of course you can use pressure treated pine redwood or any other suitable framing material to build your patio.
The existing slab can vary considerably throwing off crucial measurements.
It can also protect your house by not allowing the heat of the.
Use a jigsaw for the curved cuts and a circular saw to for the birds mouth cuts.
No it wouldn t raise my taxes.
My 1st time doing some handy work like this.
Some people said a building permit was unnecessary while others said it was impossible to get without a contractor s license or that it would raise my property tax etc.
Patio cover plans building.
Next we will build the rafters for the patio cover using 2x8s.
Getting a building permit for a patio cover.
Whether you want to make your patio a nice place to hang out with a bit of protection against sun and rain or construct a patio cover to make it an extension of your home there are a lot of options for you to get the job done.
So i called the permit and licensing office and got the correct answers.
How to build a patio cover.
Decorative cuts to rafter.
Mark the cut lines to the opposite ends.
As you can see in the diagram use a miter saw to make a 5 degree cut to one end of the rafters.
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