In this article i will outline the basic principles for framing a regular equal pitch hip roof including how to lay out the hip and precut the jacks.
How stick frame hip roof.
The methods i use are derived from production techniques.
There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house.
I ve worked on homes 120 years old with 1x6 hips and no sign of bracing or king posts and no sign of failure either.
Enter the extension wall length into wall length and double the extension wall width then minus ridge thickness into the wall width entries.
Additional boards are placed horizontally on the frames to create a complete cover for the structure.
Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists.
A stick framed roof is made up of individual rafters and that are connected to a top beam.
Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.
If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters.
I have built a bunch of similar homes but generally we use trusses.
I like to save time by figuring out and cutting as much as possible on the ground before climbing up on the plates to stack the roof.
A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle.
I am building an upscale spec home with a cut up 10 12 hip roof.
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.
It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features.
With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing.
The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof.
On this job i am stick framing the roof as there are some tray ceilings and also bonus room areas along with a section of the main floor that has 14 ceilings.
Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built.
The beam or the ridge is the central part of the structure as all the framing must be connected to it.
I ve gotten myself into a pickle as usual.
Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses.
These roof types have the basic elements of all of the other roofs and make it a perfect place to begin the discussion.
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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.
