Saddle Roof Back Porch

After installing the rafters we still had to extend the porch roof back over the shed roof creating a valley on either side.

Saddle roof back porch.

Take note there are many roof variations either for your front porch open porch or back porch. A flat porch with a flat roof will also look great in a bungalow with a common hip roof. You can have a roof design that combines a mansard and shed roof. You will need to use compound miter cuts for the cricket rafters.

This beam will provide the backbone for the cricket or saddle. The cricket or saddle basically rests on top of the house roof to visually extend the porch roof gracefully into the house roof. To keep the porch roof framing as simple as possible we installed a structural ridge supported by posts at each end with the common rafters landing on top of the ridge. Gable roof shed with nails on room addition was being built stick built primarily of lovely porch roofs are.

2x8 sleepers should be nailed to the roof surface to pick up the ends of the rafters. The cost to build a 200 square foot covered porch ranges from 4 600 to 22 000 or 10 500 on average you can expect to pay 23 to 110 per square foot the total includes flooring steps posts railing roofing and more. A round porch roof also offers a sophisticated appeal.