Roof Framing Drawing

Discover the 36 different types of roofs for a house.

Roof framing drawing.

This will the first point of the rafter measurement line. The rise or height of the roof at its peak is the altitude of the triangle. Definition of valley rafter or cripple jack rafter. Includes a frame bonnet gable hip mansard butterfly valley combination shed and more.

The framing of a basic gable roof is based on a right angle triangle and the various roof framing components fit the triangle. The point at which all the rafters are attached to. Roof framing rafter layout from one end of the rafter material using a speed square or framing square mark an x in 12 angle on the rafter and cut it. An example of each is shown in figure 2 1.

This gallery includes terrific roof design illustrations so you can easily see the differences between types of roofs. Parts of a roof a ridge board is a horizontal member of the roof frame. In our roof framing drawing above the hip jack rafters are drawn in green. A rafter extending from the roof ridge down to the top plate of a wall at the intersection of a gable extension roof that itself abuts or intersects with the main roof.

The run or half the building span is the base of the triangle. Transfers the load of the roof through the raftersto walls below. Types of roofs the most commonly used types of pitched roof construction are the gable the hip the intersecting and the shed or lean to. Common types of roofs and basic framing terms.

It is the form most commonly used by the navy. Gable a gable roof has a ridge at the center and slopes in two directions. If you have any r. Measure down y height from the long point of the rafter cut and make a mark.

This is known as prescriptive. And the line length measurement from the roof peak to the building wall is the hypotenuse. It is simple in design economical to construct. Another saturday morning work session live i needed to create this roof framing plan for a project so i thought i would go live with it.