Roof Framing Drawing

Measure down y height from the long point of the rafter cut and make a mark.

Roof framing drawing.

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. Supported by lally columns. In our roof framing drawing above the hip jack rafters are drawn in green. Transfers the load of the roof through the raftersto walls below.

This is known as prescriptive. The point at which all the rafters are attached to. This gallery includes terrific roof design illustrations so you can easily see the differences between types of roofs. If you have any r.

And the line length measurement from the roof peak to the building wall is the hypotenuse. Definition of valley rafter or cripple jack rafter. The run or half the building span is the base of the triangle. The framing of a basic gable roof is based on a right angle triangle and the various roof framing components fit the triangle.

The rise or height of the roof at its peak is the altitude of the triangle. Discover the 36 different types of roofs for a house. Introduction to prescriptive roof framing 3 prescriptive roof construction the international residential code irc and the international building code ibc set out specific guidelines within which conventional light frame wood structures may be built without the need for engineering analysis of each component. Common types of roofs and basic framing terms.

It is the form most commonly used by the navy. An example of each is shown in figure 2 1. 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. Includes a frame bonnet gable hip mansard butterfly valley combination shed and more.

It is simple in design economical to construct. Gable a gable roof has a ridge at the center and slopes in two directions. Parts of a roof a ridge board is a horizontal member of the roof frame. This will the first point of the rafter measurement line.