how's it going guys welcome back to patriot diy channel
today we're going to be showing you how we built a lean 2 on the back of our shop
all right guys so as you can see we're in the process of building a lean-to back here
on the back of the shop and so i'm just going to walk you through my whole process
now first i do want to mention i'm not a professional builder by trade or anything
like that i'm just a diy guy and i needed some extra storage on the back of my shop
and we're going to show you step by step how we did that but first if you haven't done it yet
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all right guys first thing we need to do is get our 2x6 up on the wall
this is a 12 foot 2x6 that we're going to be spanning across three of the steel studs on
our building you can see that i am using some four by fours propped up against the wall to
help me hold this in place since i am doing it by myself we're gonna measure and mark for
the placement and then we're gonna be using a level to make sure we get this nice and level
and then we'll fasten it to the walls with some heavy duty wood to metal screws
now we can get ready to put our posts in the ground and the first thing we need to do is
mark out the locations of each of the posts and to do this we're going to be stretching
the string along here to make sure we get those posts in the correct location
once we have that marked out we can go ahead and start digging with our post hole digger
and don't worry about getting these holes to the exact same dip we are going to be
trimming off the tops of these four by fours later so it doesn't have to be exactly right
now we can set our posts into the holes we're going to be using a level to make sure we get this
nice and plumb and then some scrap wood to use as bracing to hold it in place
while we get our concrete in
so
was that concrete's had time to set we're ready to go ahead and put our lower 2x6 onto these posts
all right guys we intentionally left these four by fours a little longer than we needed
so now we're gonna cut these bad boys off
now we can prep our rafters and for our raptors we're just going to be using two by fours
and don't worry you don't have to do any crazy map to get the angle just right
what i'm going to do is just hold my 2x4 up against our board that's fastened to the wall
and then i'm going to use that to mark the aim
now we can take all these two by fours into the miter station and get them cut down the length
now we can mount our rafter ties to the board and get our rafters in place
hmm
and then going back down to our lower 2x6 where the rafters overlap
i cut a scrap piece of wood to use as a spacer to make sure i get this spacing just right
and then again we're going to fasten those in place with rafter ties
now we're ready to get our purlins in place and for that we're just going to be using some 12
foot one by fours and we're going to space those out evenly across the rafters and fasten them down
uh wow
now for our roofing we're just going to be using some leftover siding from when our shop was built
but because i wanted to match the rest of the shop i'm going to clean these off and paint them black
me
all right guys we are just about finished up here just got done taking the braces off the bottom of
these posts here but if you couldn't tell what we were doing in the time lapse you can see we pulled
our string line here to make sure everything was nice and straight cemented our posts in the ground
then we attached our rafters here with various types of rafter ties
two by four rafters and then one by four purlins
only thing left is get that roof on
we're just gonna lift those into place leaving about a two inch overhang
on the sides and a four inch overhang on the front
and we're going to secure those down with some self-tapping roofing screws
wow
all right guys that is it for how to build a lean to onto your shop i think it turned out great if
you guys have any suggestions or things that i should have done different make sure you let us
know in the comments below like i said i'm not a professional but i think it turned out good and
it's going to work out great for us i'm ultimately going to be turning this into some firewood
storage so make sure you stay tuned for that video and make sure you subscribe to the channel
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