Stick Frame Roof Construction

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.

Stick frame roof construction.

There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house. Stick framing requires larger lumber and more of it. The rafters are usually positioned directly above the wall studs. The rise or height of the roof at its peak is the altitude of the triangle.

And the line length measurement from the roof peak to the building wall is the hypotenuse. Nail 2 boards onto your walls as top plates. Like wall studs and floor joists rafters and trusses are spaced every 16 or 24 inches from center to center. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing.

Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. The gable roof hip roof gambrel roof flat roof shed roof mansard roof and many more custom roof types. Stick framing combines roof rafters with ceiling joists. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design.

The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Roof framing depends on the type of roof you want to build. The beam or the ridge is the central part of the structure as all the framing must be connected to it. The frame generally requires a continuous concrete foundation support which results in significantly higher foundation costs.

Stick framing a roof requires framers to spend much more time on scaffolding ladders and above ground which means more chance for accidents. Additional boards are placed horizontally on the frames to create a complete cover for the structure. Stick framing takes place on site while trusses come prefabricated and ready to. The run or half the building span is the base of the triangle.

Nail the first boards on top of your wall where you plan to build your roof. Continuing on from part 3. There are several roof types. With stick building which is more commonly used in building homes the frames are often built over a crawlspace or basements.

The two basic types of roof construction stick framing and truss assembly both produce a structurally sound roof. Most roofs utilize 16 inch spacings for strength and rigidity. The framing of a basic gable roof is based on a right angle triangle and the various roof framing components fit the triangle. Stick framing can t span very far.

When you nail in the second boards offset the seams of the upper and lower layers by at least 24 in 61 cm. Here we have a wood framed gable roof.