How To Lift Plywood Onto Roof By Yourself

And make 2 sawhorses about 4 feet high.

How to lift plywood onto roof by yourself.

This will not only make the surface look ugly but may also puncture the membrane. To use this contraption lift one corner of your plywood slide it on the track good side out and wheel the cart to the front of your tablesaw. Methods for lifting roofing material onto a roof by brian walker. Obviously the cheapest but also the most physically taxing method is simply carrying the roofing materials by hand onto the roof.

Take two 2x4s long enough to extend above the roof line by about 2. Attach another section of 2 4 across them to hold them together at a height that will allow you to stack the plywood on it so that the top of the plywood sticks up above the top of the jack stand at the roof line. Again 3mm gaps where the boards abut. If there is an open space in the wall of the second floor then fashioning a quick hoist with a pulley and rope can move a lot of plywood quickly.

How to easily move plywood by yourself duration. Gene lonergan 161 427 views. Michelle gagnon 33 426 views. Lift the flip up side slide the plywood onto the top of the cart the semi circular cutout lets you grasp the bottom edge of the sheet and you re ready to feed it into the saw.

Go onto the roof and lift the sheathing one sheet at a time. Homemade lift for raising plywood onto a roof by yourself duration. Place them perpendicular to the wall. A simple way to get a bunch of sheets to the roof is to build a simple rack out of framing lumber 2x4s are fine on the ground onto which you stack your plywood sheets.

Therefore it is far. This is not a problem for basic materials such as nails and so forth but for shingles it quickly becomes a major chore. Find local stockist or timber suppliers here local timber merchants. Make it tall enough so that you can pull the sheets from the roof and install them in place.

Lift and then place the sheets of sheathing 6 8 against roof gutter and resting on the sawhorses. Full replacement or over boarding of a roof deck. For 4 or more sheets purchase 2 pairs of metal sawhorse brackets about 5 pair for 2x4 lumber.