How to install roof jacks step 1.
How to attach roof jacks.
Make sure to line up the jack perfectly with the rafter with the bottom butt of the rafter visible at the roof edge.
Ideally you should find the rafter first underneath the sheathing locate by feeling the nails.
It is usually placed on the fourth.
Attach two jacks to the roof by pulling up a tab of one of the shingles sliding the top of the jack under it.
Roof jacks make it easier to set roofing and increase safety for you by providing stable surface.
They attach to the roof with nails but don t use roofing nails.
Although the heads are broad roofing nails are short their shank diameters are small and their heads pop off easily.
Placing the first roof.
Roof jacks provide safe platforms on sloped roofs.
Use 10d to 16d common nails and drive them through the roof sheathing and into the framing see the photo.
Prepping installation carefully place a ladder by the side of the roof and make sure that it is stable and.
Determine placement determine the best place to fasten your first roof jack.
Attach jack image zoom roof jacks provide a stable surface to work increasing safety and making it easier to.
Secure plank image zoom slip whichever size board usually a 2x8 inch or 2x10 inch will fit snugly into the jacks.