Stick Framing A Hip Roof

If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters.

Stick framing a hip roof. Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses. A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle.

With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. And the cons of stick framing. It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features. It s not good for lumber to get wet either.

All the work must be done on the site which is controlled by weather rain mud wind cold heat. Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built.

Complicated steep hip roofs. 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. Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates.