Stick Frame Hip Roof

Place the 4 6 common rafters in their designated positions along the 2 longest walls and nail them firmly to the wall with a nail gun.

Stick frame hip roof.

There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house. While truss roofs are the most popular construction style today by some estimates truss roofs outnumber stick frame roofs two to one there are regions of the country where builders still prefer stick frame roofing. Stick framing a roof requires framers to spend much more time on scaffolding ladders and above ground which means more chance for accidents. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing.

And the cons of stick framing. The gable roof hip roof gambrel roof flat roof shed roof mansard roof and many more custom roof types. Attach 4 6 centering rafters and lift the ridge beam into place. It s not good for lumber to get wet either.

For that reason we can use the same common rafters all the way around it. There are several roof types. Framers stick building a hip roof you can learn a great deal about roof framing by understanding the concepts of framing a gable or shed roof. Roof framing depends on the type of roof you want to build.

We ll assume the new length of the roof below is 3 4 metres. For stick framed roofs that have horizontal joists rafters rest on the exterior wall plates and slope upward to meet at a center ridge board to form a gable roof. Complicated steep hip roofs. It is basically a gable roof with half of the hipped roof above stuck on each end.