Stick Framing A Hip Roof

The types of rafters used in a hip roof include common jack hip and ridge beam rafters.

Stick framing a hip roof.

For stick framed roofs that have horizontal joists rafters rest on the exterior wall plates and slope upward to meet at a center ridge board to form a gable roof. 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. We ll assume the new length of the roof below is 3 4 metres. The 4 hip rafters begin at the 4 corners of the roof and connect to the ridge beam.

While truss roofs are the most popular construction style today by some estimates truss roofs outnumber stick frame roofs two to one there are regions of the country where builders still prefer stick frame roofing. Roof framing depends on the type of roof you want to build. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. Post up a pic of the elevations or the roof framing detail and maybe can steer you in the right direction.

To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length. For that reason we can use the same common rafters all the way around it. There are several roof types. Again if you have a roof framing detail and you ve framed a hip roof before this should be pretty simple.

Post up your ridge cut your hip rafters then fill in with commons and jacks. The ridge beam runs along horizontally along the top of the roof and is supported by the other rafters. It is basically a gable roof with half of the hipped roof above stuck on each end.