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[B7510HSD]

Anyone have any ideas on how to extend the house where this deck is ?? Basically looking for what is needed to be done with the roof to ad this into the existing tructure..

 

[woodlandfarms]

IMO it is problematic. You could make a flat roof extension and fight water issues. If you continue the front angle of the roof your chimney is going to have to be raised.

Both solutions are doable. How deep are your pockets?

 

[Egon]

Looks like there has been an extension already added on?

Might be easier to put on a whole new roof.:thumbsup:

 

[davedj1]

I would build where the deck is and put a shed roof from the very top of the left ridge down to the new right hand wall. That would eliminate any danger of a bad situation.

 

[BeezFun]

I'd extend the portion of the roof surface that we can't see up until the new peak is high enough to allow a normal gable roof that extends to the back of the deck. The portion of the house that extends out of the photo to the left would then have it's roof become a dormer.

 

[B7510HSD]

Good Ideas guys yes it has been added onto already I hear a long time ago...We're still dreaming...Another option is to build a 2 car garage and make the room we need in one side of the garage!!

 

[Obed]

You could build a shed roof over your deck similar to the shed roof over our back porch. You would also need to change the side of the roof on your existing addition that is closest to the deck. You would need to raise that side of the roof so that it is level with the the original gable roof.

My only question would be if a shallow pitch shed roof will handle the snow that your area gets?

What you are considering is similar to our house. If you take our upstairs back porch and move it to the right, our layout would be similar to yours. The gable roof our our garage would be the roof over your existing room addition. The back porch would be your exising deck/new addition.

We had the same questions you are having regarding how to build the roof for our back porch. We originally considered a gable roof for the back porch but there wasn't a good way for the porch's gable roof to meet the garage's gable roof.

I have attached some pictures of our house before and after the porch's shed roof was added so you can better see how the porch's shed roof meets the rest of the roof.

If it will handle the snow, I think the shed roof is the way to go in your situation. If the shed roof can't handle the snow, then you are faced with putting gable roof over the deck beside the gable roof over your existing addition. You would then need a "mini"-shed roof between the two gables to keep water from collecting at the level line where the two gable roofs would meet without the mini-shed roof between them.

Obed

 

[B7510HSD]

not sure we have enough height to do it that way the eves are only about
6' 8" above the deck! Oh and this doesn't get much snow it's on the Washington Coast!

 

[dynasim]

I would second the new roof concept, getting trusses premade would make it a big, but not gargantuan job. You would have a much better performing, looking, place when you got done. The difficulty is that the current roof peak elevation isn't enough to get you good drainage all the way out onto the new addition.

A separate place over a new garage kills two birds with one stone, though!

Chris

 

[Obed]

not sure we have enough height to do it that way the eves are only about
6' 8" above the deck! Oh and this doesn't get much snow it's on the Washington Coast!

Do you want the eaves of the new addition to be higher than your existing eaves? If not, I don't see how the height of the existing eaves factors in. The new addition with a shed roof will give the new room the same ceiling height as the existing room where the sliding glass door is.

Obed

 

[Obed]

I would second the new roof concept, getting trusses premade would make it a big, but not gargantuan job. You would have a much better performing, looking, place when you got done. The difficulty is that the current roof peak elevation isn't enough to get you good drainage all the way out onto the new addition.

A separate place over a new garage kills two birds with one stone, though!

Chris

I agree that anything other than a new roof will be a compromise and will look patched together. While not ideal, a shed roof extended over the new addition would give the OP a 2/12 pitch, maybe 2.5/12 pitch. In our area here in the south, a lot of double-wides have 2/12 pitch roofs without leakage issues. That shallow of a pitch would be more of an issue in a place that gets lots of snow. The shed roof over our back porch is a 3/12 pitch and is no problem at all.

Obed

 

[B7510HSD]

I want it to look decent when it's done I may just have to go back to plan1
and the garage What I need is a Laundry room and the house is so small there is no where to put it!! If I was to build a garage I would use half for the laundry room and put a second bathroom and maybe a spare bedroom!!

 

[lilranch2001]

most building codes require a minimum 4/12 pitch, at least around here