Roof Frame Structure

Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built.

Roof frame structure.

Position the square at the end of the rafter board with the tongue on your left and facing away from you. We will go over raft. Choose a style of roof. Understand the different measurements.

Add the length of the overhang beyond this mark and. Measure form the top of this line down the board to determine the line length or length of the rafter less the ridge. Choose the design of the roofing trusses. The framing style of the roof refers to the actual components of each.

This video covers one of the most exciting parts of roof framing installing rafters. Designing the roof 1. Some of these can support the roof and prevent ridge sagging and wall spreading. Roof trusses are manufactured ready to install.

Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists. The shed roof or lean to is a roof having only one slope or pitch. The roof is held up by walls or posts where one wall or the posts on one side are at a higher level than those on the opposite side. It is used where large buildings are framed under one roof where hasty or temporary construction is needed and where sheds or additions are erected.

Collar ties rafter ties tension beams structural ridge beams. Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses.