How To Remove A Wooden Gable Garage Roof

Cut out the section of the roofing.

How to remove a wooden gable garage roof.

Remove the rotted section of fascia. This can easily be accomplished by using a hammer and a crowbar. This is where your wooden dowels will insert into the wood. Change a rotten or damaged fascia board.

It was very easy. 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. Be careful not to damage any nearby roof shingles or flashing. Remove the jack quickly and set the iron onto the entire beam.

Pull down to remove the old soffit. Place the jack back underneath the beam but this time under the iron piece. Hold the replacement against the end of the remaining rafter. Pull the old rafter end away from the roof eave.

Drive the remaining carriage bolts into the two by six rafter and tighten them all up. Then lower the jack down a little at a time so that the metal can take the weight of the roof. Slide the split ends of the hammer under and around the nail. Lever the split end of the hammer up to pull the nail out of the roof.

Use the split end of a claw hammer to pry out nails still holding bits of shingles onto the roof. 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. Remove leftover debris from the roof. 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.

If it comes off without splitting reuse it later.