How To Remove A Wooden Gable Garage Roof

Change a rotten or damaged fascia board.

How to remove a wooden gable garage roof.

Be careful not to damage any nearby roof shingles or flashing. Remove the rotted section of fascia. Remove leftover debris from the roof. Lever the split end of the hammer up to pull the nail out of the roof.

Pull the old rafter end away from the roof eave. Use the split end of a claw hammer to pry out nails still holding bits of shingles onto the roof. You can install a new fascia board in a couple of hours with the right tools to d. Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the roof.

Refrain from pulling out the structural nails that are not flush to the surface. Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up. Remove an area of the roof shingles from the edge of the roof to the upper line of the overhang using a 16 inch nail bar and hammer to pull the roofing nails. This can easily be accomplished by using a hammer and a crowbar.

It was very easy. Place the jack back underneath the beam but this time under the iron piece. Step 1 remove the existing roof the first step when removing a wood roof truss is to disassemble the existing roof that is causing a load upon the truss. Pry the narrow shingle mold from the fascia using a flat bar.

If it comes off without splitting reuse it later. Make two lines on the side of the replacement rafter end and the end of the rafter 1 inch from the top and bottom edges. Hold the replacement against the end of the remaining rafter. Cut out the section of the roofing.

Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam.