Framing Intersecting Roof Lines

Position the square at the end of the rafter board with the tongue on your left and facing away from you.

Framing intersecting roof lines.

Intersecting the intersecting roof consists of a gable and valley or hip and valley. To transition the eaves the horizontal fascia extends to the last rafter tail and a vertical return finishes the transition. The ridge board is the horizontal framing member that defines the roofline in a gable roof. Add the length of the overhang beyond this mark and.

It extends from one gable end to the other at the peak of the roof. Learn more about off angle roof framing. Measure form the top of this line down the board to determine the line length or length of the rafter less the ridge. This type of roof is more complicated than the figure 2 1 most common types of pitched roofs.

Is that it is more difficult to construct than a gable roof. In a standard gable roof the ridge. Explore framing complexities that result when roofs of two different pitches intersect. Keeping the outside edge of the blade flush with the edge of the plywood slide the square until the 12 inch mark on the tongue intersects with the hip.

Lay your square in the corner of the plywood drawing working from the side of the diagonal line that represents the main roof. A sketchup model helps clarify how various rafters and framing components are assembled in an off angle hip and valley configuration. Thus there arehip jack raftersand valley jack rafters. At the low end of the valley the subfascias of the two roofs are mitered with a block filling in the roof framing.

A jack rafteris a shortened com mon rafter that may be framed to a hip rafter a valley rafter or both.