I need to build a "roof" over a door in our home. It will be very similar to the picture attached (I do NOT want a peaked roof, as that's not the style of our house). It will extend about 18" beyond the width of the door (I need to get outside of the exterior light).
The main reason is to get out of the weather prior to going into the house. Also, when the snow melts off the roof (it was 45 degrees Sunday) it drips down on to the pavers, freezes overnight and is terribly slippery in the morning. With this roof any water from the main roof will drip onto this roof, then off into the landscaping. Water running off the roof in the summer isn't an issue because of the gutters.
It's a cedar-sided home.
Questions:
1. My plan is to lag bolt the horizontal 2x4s (probably cedar) straight into the side of the house, so through the cedar siding and wall sheathing. I don't know how I would find studs. Is that enough? Or do I absolutely need to find studs, and if so can I just mark them from the inside (finished sheetrock walls) and transfer that marking outside, using the door as a reference?
2. I will also lag bolt a top "header" through the exterior wall that I'll attach the roof "trusses" to.
3. For any bolts that go through the exterior wall, I intend to drill pilot holes and fill them with waterproof caulk. Will that be enough to stop any water penetration and possible future rotting? I'm guessing there will only be 3 on each side + ~4 on the top header.
4. I don't think I need to flash the roof against the home. Originally, I was going to try to "force" some flashing up under the cedar siding for the entire width of the roof, but I don't think that's necessary. I really don't see any way for water to run up the roof and under the cedar siding any more so than how it currently would without the roof. And it's not a heated roof, so any melting should just run down the roof. Thoughts?
Any input would be appreciated.
The main reason is to get out of the weather prior to going into the house. Also, when the snow melts off the roof (it was 45 degrees Sunday) it drips down on to the pavers, freezes overnight and is terribly slippery in the morning. With this roof any water from the main roof will drip onto this roof, then off into the landscaping. Water running off the roof in the summer isn't an issue because of the gutters.
It's a cedar-sided home.
Questions:
1. My plan is to lag bolt the horizontal 2x4s (probably cedar) straight into the side of the house, so through the cedar siding and wall sheathing. I don't know how I would find studs. Is that enough? Or do I absolutely need to find studs, and if so can I just mark them from the inside (finished sheetrock walls) and transfer that marking outside, using the door as a reference?
2. I will also lag bolt a top "header" through the exterior wall that I'll attach the roof "trusses" to.
3. For any bolts that go through the exterior wall, I intend to drill pilot holes and fill them with waterproof caulk. Will that be enough to stop any water penetration and possible future rotting? I'm guessing there will only be 3 on each side + ~4 on the top header.
4. I don't think I need to flash the roof against the home. Originally, I was going to try to "force" some flashing up under the cedar siding for the entire width of the roof, but I don't think that's necessary. I really don't see any way for water to run up the roof and under the cedar siding any more so than how it currently would without the roof. And it's not a heated roof, so any melting should just run down the roof. Thoughts?
Any input would be appreciated.
