How To Frame A Hip And Valley Roof

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How to frame a hip and valley roof.

Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing. Rick arnold frequent contributor to fine homebuilding and the journal of light construction presenter at jlc live the katz roadshow the remodeling show. To build a hip roof start by measuring the width and height of the building you re putting the roof on. Subscribe to this old house.

Here roofs are constructed with an angle of 90 degrees. Next once you know the lengths of the rafters cut some wooden planks to size and make birdsmouth cuts in each one so. For regular hips and valleys where the roof sections have the same slope and meet to form a 90 degree angle. Broken hip and valley roof are formed on an l shaped building when the two sides ar.

The hip and valley factor is a number that is multiplied by the actual run horizontal distance of a common rafter to determine the length of a hip or valley rafter. Hipped roof construction can seem quite complicated to grasp at first but i m going to break it down and explain each area in detail. Http bit ly subscribethisoldhouse he explains the difference b. Repeat the run not the length of a common rafter for precision the thickness of the ridge board and any eave.

Now draw the centerlines for all rectangles that are formed inside. Hip and valley roof framing is no so complex as compared to hip roof framing procedures. If you begin with accurate as built measurements and use a construction calculator to do the math you can cut all of the rafters for most roofs on the ground in just one shot. This roof valley is a perfect example.

First of all you need to design the layout of building. I ll start at the beginning with the easy bits before tackling the more complicated stuff and that way hopefully i ll make it really clear and easy to understand exactly how to set out measure cut and install hip and valley roof rafters. Then enter those measurements into an online roofing calculator to determine how long each common rafter will need to be.