How To Make A Roof For Brike And Concrete Walls

This requires basic carpenter tools and a sheet of 75 inch 19 mm plywood along with 2 x 4 inch 5 1 x 10 2 cm by 8 feet 2 4 m lumber.

How to make a roof for brike and concrete walls.

Learn how to build a low wall from concrete breezeblocks. Make the forms you need to use for the concrete bricks. Attaching a wood roof to a cinder block building is difficult but possible. However the do it yourselfer can attach a wooden roof to cinder block with little or no training in one to two days depending on the size and scope of the project.

Use 9 x 4 x 3 5 inches 22 9 x 10 2 x 8 9 cm for your brick dimensions. For this reason adding a concrete roof onto a wood. Of course a concrete roof requires more support than a typical wooden roof. The depth and size of the foundation will vary depending on the size of the concrete block wall and the weight it must support but a typical freestanding wall requires a foundation that is about twice as wide as the wall itself and which extends about 1 foot down below the frost line.

Foundation all concrete block walls must rest on a sturdy foundation of poured concrete. Metal roof flashing is a galvanized sheet metal that is bent at a 90 degree angle about 8 to 12 inches on each side of the angle. It comes in 10 foot lengths or for step flashing 6 inch lengths. It is used to seal the gap between walls and intersecting roofs.

Failure to create an attachment point will result in roof failure especially in high winds.