Building A Patio Cover

One of the pros of a shorter patio cover is you will be able to maximize the amount of shade.

Building a patio cover. The patio area to be covered is fairly large 24 x12 so spanning it became the major obstacle. When you are building a patio cover off of an existing roof or wall you must take all of your measurements from the point at which the patio roof will attach to the existing structure not the outside of the slab. Diy using discounted and free materials but looks professional and to code. One drawback of these type of structures is it may start to feel cramped.

An inside look as to how i came to build myself a patio cover. The posts will be attached to the slab using. At close to the beginning of the article it shows a sketch on how the patio is to be built with the header on top of the posts. Building a covered patio.

My 1st time doing some handy work like this. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Use a jigsaw for the curved cuts and a circular saw to for the birds mouth cuts. Decorative cuts to rafter.

Click here for an update to this video. Step 1 install anchors column brackets while this step could be done several different ways j and i opted to use a post bracket wedge anchor to tie the columns into our concrete pads using a drill bit we drilled a hole the length of our wedge anchor 4 5 inches into the concrete. As you can see in the diagram use a miter saw to make a 5 degree cut to one end of the rafters. The higher covered patio will feel more open but you will lose some of the shade coverage.

Building a patio cover a free standing example. The two choices were to run 12 beams and then get 24 engineered trusses to cover the span or run 24 beams and run 12 2x8 s to span the 10 gap. The new patio cover will be built using western red cedar 4x6 posts 4x6 beams and 2x6 rafters of course you can use pressure treated pine redwood or any other suitable framing material to build your patio. The existing slab can vary considerably throwing off crucial measurements.

Diy patio cover size cost. Next we will build the rafters for the patio cover using 2x8s. A typical arbor or covered patio can vary from eight to eleven feet tall. I would never build a patio cover like this and expect to get paid.

The roof will be constructed using multi core galvalume metal roofing. Part ii in how to build a simple patio cover from start to finish.