How To Extend Rake Roof

The roof leg should extend a minimum of 2 back onto the roof sheathing.

How to extend rake roof.

Learn how to overlap gable trim on a metal roof. The roof rake plates are installed in different widths depending on the surface being covered. Your gutter should extend beyond your roof shingles not align with it. While the vertical leg should be placed 1 4 1 2 away from the fascia.

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. Use larger rake plates such as 1 by 4 inches and 1 by 6 inches when there is an infinity ledge at the end of the gable. Rake plates of one by 2 inches often cover the exposed top edge of the liner when there is also a ledge at the end of the gable. Unless you give this water the ability to drop into the gutter trough it ll flow onto the end cap and likely cause an unsightly drip that will occur every time it rains.

On some roofs they detail the gable. Then we are going to redo the edge of the roofing. Position the rafter extensions against the existing. It is not uncommon for them to place the drip edge right against the fascia.

Water will run down the shingle edge and even run underneath it. 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. We want to extend to provide some protection from rain of the end walls. Step by step gable and rake trim installation instructions that specifically cover how to overlapping gable.

Cut rafter tail extensions three times the length of the overhang that you want to add using lumber the same size as the existing rafters.