Building A Shed Dormer On An Existing Roof
Adding a dormer for a bathroom makeover old house online tony and kathy consulted an architect who recommended a shed roof which has a shallow sloping roof with no hips or gables.
Building a shed dormer on an existing roof. A shed dormer is a feature that can add more space and a lot of light to any upstairs loft or room. Building a 20 ft wide shed dormer doesnt take much more effort than building a 4 ft wide version. Photos 1 and 12 consisting of a full body harness lanyard rope roof anchor and all the hardware and instructions. I took this approach in the project shown below.
A step by step guide. Recently completed in march 2016 this project wasnt quite as straight froward as it may look in the video. A shed dormers roof slopes in one direction downward from the ridge of the existing roof toward the exterior wall of the structure. Shed dormers also work well on l shaped houses even if one ell already has a shed dormer.
Mike guertin a contributing editor for fine homebuilding explains the different ways to tie shed dormers into an existing roof. The new shed dormer can join the existing shed dormer and wrap the corner roof valley to continue down the other ell. Rather than pre cutting studs beforehand i. Once the existing roof is cut out i can raise the wall set the rafters and sheathe the dormer in a matter of hours ready to dry in with sheathing and paper.
Youll also need good equipment for working up high an extension ladder roofing brackets and scaffolding see roof safety. A shed roof buys you a lot of space. What are the different ways to tie the shed roof into the existing roof. Building a dormer requires a tool belt loaded with all the basic carpentry tools plus a few extrasa circular saw reciprocating saw framing square and 2 and 4 ft.
In contrast the wider a gable dormer is the longer and larger the rafters have to be and the harder it is to keep it looking in scale with the house. A shed dormer has a flat pitched roof not an angled gable. We also recommend you rent or buy a personal fall arrest system pfas. If the top of the shed dormers falls below the existing ridgeline you need to nail or screw and glue new boards to the existing rafters to carry the load and headers between the rafters at the top.
If you have decided that the top of the shed dormers will be at the existing roof ridgeline the rafters of the dormer can be nailed to the ridge. While other styles of dormer rely on having to sister in a new framework the shed dormer does not. Without adding any square footage to the houses footprint the new dormer provided. Im planning to add a shed dormer to my house.
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