it's Friday today was the day that I set as a goal to be wrapped up with the
exterior for the most part so that we can walk away the week of Thanksgiving
and yes it is Thanksgiving week next week so that gives you an idea as to how
far I am behind on my content but that's what happens when you work all day every
day you got a family a business to run yeah kind of do your best it's gonna
bust out the Pascoe joist hanger nail gun cordless gas-powered I'm not a fan
of gas but it is what it is I'm gonna get some hangers installed up here
before we start shooting this you're gonna be putting on some 5/8 OSB if
you're going to use OSB on a steel roof you should make sure it's a minimum of
5/8 half-inch 7/16 just doesn't have that holding power that plywood does now
you can see how this whole thing comes together we've got this rafter tail here
that is inset dropped down and that's all done with math and get all worked
out pretty good everything is looking good math never lies people I'm telling
you you don't get cuts like that if you don't do the math you got to know what
your angles are what your dimensions are everything comes out perfect or really
close we'll get this whole roof sheeted we'll get it felt papered and then we
will be able to trim and get our steel up over this section of the building so
we can get this all closed off finish our gable trims soffits fascia ridge
kept me we got a great day ahead of us
what I like to do is make sure I put some like I don't I just call them like
a hold down clip and it's right here on my rafters you know just to help with
uplift I've got them all screwed down but some additional protection is always
good good I'm good right in the middle take a look at our fascia how does our
fascia look I mean we're coming off of that midpoint which is perfect straight
all right I'm not a huge fan of running the cordless itachi for this application
but it does the job when you got nails never fails I'm out of nails it's gonna
be my next t-shirt somebody steals it I'm not be happy unless they pay me
royalties and yes I just put framing nails in because I don't have any
smaller one so the sheeting is probably it's probably not gonna go anywhere now
you might ask why are we sheeting the porch roof - the upper roof section and
I tell you two reasons first off what I like to do is I like to sheet our porch
roof in case we get an overwhelming amount of roof snow that comes over and
lands right here it's kind of tucked in mostly when our roofs on the porch are
underneath of our eaves we worry about that snow coming off the roof on a big
slide like an avalanche and crashing down we don't want it to crunch any of
our ribs so the roof sheathing on the porch is really just an insurance
protection I don't want to come back and replace it this doesn't cost much and it
doesn't take much time and it really adds a lot of rigidity to this roof
structure on these add-on porches just to add that extra you know strength I
guess there we go we got it she did 5/8 seating for the win super sturdy I love
it we are going to now run our felt paper felt paper we put
that on there just to prevent some condensation maybe build up between the
steel and the sheeting and then what we're able to do is where once we get
our felt paper and we're gonna go ahead and run our steel so we can get these
flashings done but I like to run the hip cap and tuck it before I put my my steel
over top of it so we'll take you through that process and hopefully we can get
all this kind of covered up here by lunchtime that would be awesome so when
we come back to lunch the roof will be completely dry cleaned off and we should
be able to finish out all this stuff there's really no secret to how to felt
a roof we just overlap these white lines here so it's good yeah that's my machine
gun stapler I love it it's a fast go I don't even know f1b 52:16 it's like full
auto it's crazy
you will definitely waste a lot of staples because it's a lot of fun we've
got the felt down now we're gonna go ahead and tuck our drip edge up
underneath so we can start laying out our roof panels so once I've got my felt
paper ran what I like to do is I run some j-channel
and I run it right on that line and I snap the line even though my ridge cap
or my ridge beam or raft or whatever was really straight I just feel like that
snap line just gives me a nice visual I don't have to guess where exactly it's
at and playing anything in I just snap it from up there where my Center was all
the way out there to the the corner of my overhang and then I'm gonna run a
piece of jade on this side and then I'll run another one on this side and what
that's gonna do is my steel will tuck up in and then my hip cap will go right
over top and you won't be able to see up through here we don't install any
fillers we don't really see that as a need on this
because there's not gonna be anywhere for the wind to blow in and through like
a ridge cap would because it's blocked right over the hips gives me a nice line
my steel will go right up in there over here will also give me some support all
the way out there where my hip cap is gonna bend over and be nice and clean
I'll cut all that up later we'll get there wrapping up this soffit fascia
here so that we'll be ready to after this roof is here and we get that
connection flashing on we'll be able to get this steel up and over so we're
moving we're doing it we're getting there so we're getting ready to cut our
roof steel here and we got all this stuff prepped what I like to do is I
always like to find my center line which we've already got here that's on our
fascia that's our Center and we've already got
our peak way up there so this mark right here is the longest point of my sheet so
I can get that measurement very easily and if we did our job all of this is
square so if we go right in the middle to right in the middle it'll be a nice
straight line all of our math should work out because we've already done that
if we look at my drawing here remember we've got these angles here forty six
point eight seven and this one's the forty-three and thirteen point one three
because they're opposite each other so I know all of these dimensions and what
that equates to is the forty three point one three degrees here or the forty six
point eight seven they equate to thirty-eight and 7/16 per sheet so what
that means is if I mark the peak way up here this is three foot on one foot I
would do a third of this which eleven and a quarter yeah eleven a quarter so
what I would do is on one foot the 43 degrees is actually 11 and 1/4 per foot
so every foot run we go up or down in this case 11 and 1/4 so I multiply that
by 3 because our sheets are 3 foot and mathematically that should work so we're
gonna go ahead and make a cut and we'll bring it up on the roof and see that we
are right cross your fingers guys math never live so Greg's already done his
measurement he's coming down from at point 33 and 3/4 you use the straight
edge level over there to get your mark and you're using the best nibblers that
we have I'm sure there's better ones
now Greg because that's gonna go up into the point of our hip can you go ahead
and snip that back just like that guys do not use hand snips buy yourself a set
of nibblers they'll cost you a few hundred dollars and save you so much
time and effort that you will thank me again and again and we take tips okay I
didn't have my digital angle finder I use my math and we got this sweet cut
Greg did a really good cut nice job Greg except for we did make the mistake in
that we've got two different angles here because it's kind of like a bastard hip
I think that's what you call it because our dimensions weren't the same
so we've got two different pitches coming out of this hip and we did the
wrong one so the good news is this pitch is for that side so no big deal we'll
just use it there Greg next time won't you do it the right
way I'm joking man it was my fault my fault I take ownership of that one I had
the angles wrote down and in my mind I was thinking that this was the lesser of
the two but it's actually the sharper or steeper pitch of the two so we'll go
ahead we'll make that cut correct the next
time and now that we know that though we don't have to guess we know exactly what
we got to do people always ask me how we cut pitch angles up the sidewalls on the
end walls I should say same thing on your hips or your roof if you've got to
cut angles you should always use obviously math math never lies a 4-12
pitch roof a 312 into whatever it is there is a an angle to that or a 4-12
pitch so four inches per foot sheets of steel are almost always three foot
profiles so all you have to do is measure the pitch multiply it by three
and that is the distance from top to bottom on your angle so hopefully that
helps somebody I remember back in the day when I used to pull out the tape
measure I'd measure one distance and then I'd move and measure over and then
I'd measure the other distance until someone shared that tip with me so
hopefully that helps buddy let me know down below in the
comments if that was a great tip if that's something you never knew and just
changed your life for the better that would be awesome I would love to know
that now what we do is I just go ahead and run off the feet make sure I'm
hiding my lap to the most visible spot and we'll go ahead and just run one at a
time so we'll just back laugh the sheet to the right and then we'll lap the
sheet to the left but you can kind of see now how that works so once we put
our hip cap on there it'll be nice and dark you won't have light shining
through and sometimes I remember sometimes I don't to have them reverse
the J so the colors on the inside but honestly after not doing it one time I
looked up in there and you can't see the white I didn't think it was worth it
this way if I got extras or if I'm missing a piece it doesn't matter I can
use the universal J that I've got for other stuff on the job
now that we've got this side of the roof installed remember I ran these J's long
I will just take my square I'll bring it out out here to the face and then I'll
cut this J off that way this is perfect it gives me some support under here for
this little flap that's always here and when you look up it won't look so well
that's dark it won't look so unfinished and then our hip cap will come on and
I'll put a nice little bend down on it and it'll just clean it up nice so this
right here is one of the most disappointing things about a bastard hip
when it comes to metal steel siding roofing material you've got nine-inch
ribs and I want so bad to have all of these ribs line up you can see that I
started with and lined up a rib but as we go down the hip they get off and
that's because this pitch here is not as steep as this pitch so they're never
going to be the same I wish I could change that you know this thing but
there's nothing I can do so just giving you a heads up if you got to do hips try
to make them the same try to make the dimensions 45 so what I mean by that is
this dimension is 9 foot but instead of being 18 foot
with two nine foot by nine foot hips this is only sixteen foot so we've got
to come up with a different somehow we still want our hips to be out on our
corners and because of that this is what happens the only other thing that you
can do I think but I'm not a hundred percent sure no there's nothing else you
can do and if there is please let me know
now that we have this awesome connection trim you can see this is a side wall or
end wall flashing got a nice little ledge up remember we got that you can
see here the edge of that two by twelve framing that we put in there that was so
that we can screw into this down here at the bottom I do this nice little bend
and you got to make sure see if you can kind of see in here I don't cut it
straight out you got to cut it on a 4 12 pitch so that when this bends down it'll
actually not hit anything otherwise for whatever reason it just does so I always
put a pitch cut there we'll got our sheet of steel to go tuck under there
and it'll go right up if everything goes according to plan I like to run our
steel into the fascia here that way when we put our fascia over it it'll cap that
nice gutter goes on no worry about water there we go we got that piece in there
and I have not fastened this trim on the top side so what I can do is I can lift
this up that way it's perfect you know this is the hardest one you can
kind of see what's going on there it's all covered see this is the rib from the
roof so any water that does somehow get behind here it's gonna work its way out
right here gutters gonna go all the way in and then our fascia will cap this