How To Frame A Hip And Valley Roof

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.

How to frame a hip and valley roof.

Rick arnold frequent contributor to fine homebuilding and the journal of light construction presenter at jlc live the katz roadshow the remodeling show. Next once you know the lengths of the rafters cut some wooden planks to size and make birdsmouth cuts in each one so. Now draw the centerlines for all rectangles that are formed inside. Then enter those measurements into an online roofing calculator to determine how long each common rafter will need to be.

This roof valley is a perfect example. Now outline the biggest rectangle inside the building layout. Repeat the run not the length of a common rafter for precision the thickness of the ridge board and any eave. Framing a complex roof is one of the trickiest parts of home building.

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. 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. This video shows the erection procedure for a broken hip and valley roof. But it doesn t have to be.

Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing. Here roofs are constructed with an angle of 90 degrees. For regular hips and valleys where the roof sections have the same slope and meet to form a 90 degree angle. Hip and valley roof framing is no so complex as compared to hip roof framing procedures.

Subscribe to this old house. Broken hip and valley roof are formed on an l shaped building when the two sides ar. First of all you need to design the layout of building.