Stick Built Roof Design

Continuing on from part 3.

Stick built roof design.

All the trusses built by us come with an engineer seal that say they will handle the loads that are specified. Pitch is the amount of angle or slope the roof has. It starts with setting ridge and valley beams above the house walls. Also different architectural styles will use the same type of roof.

Framers or roofer also have given me feedback about the strength of a trussed roof versus a stick framed roof. The stick framed roof process allows more space underneath the roof either for an elegant look with a cathedral style ceiling or for storage space in an attic. Putting it together is relatively straight forward if you have basic carpentry skills and use precise measurements. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design.

Then dimensional lumber called rafters are cut to fit one piece at a time and shoved up to a framer on the roof that s balancing on scaffolding who installs the rafters. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Does your stick framed roof come with that. A gable roof is a simple symmetrical triangular roof.

We have been on the internet since the 1990s so our plans have built garages all over the us. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design. Behm design is a leading provider of ready to use garage plans. In this post randy shackelford discusses some design choices available to stick frame builders the challenges they pose and the solutions offered by the simpson.

This is denoted two ways a 1 3 or 1 4 pitch in fractions and a 6 12 pitch in inches which means the roof rises 6 inches for each 12 inches of run. Here we have a wood framed gable roof. They are easily changed and manipulated later if needed by either changing up the space removing an attic floor to make a more open room or other modeling plans. Stick framing is building the roof on the construction site one piece or board at a time.

To build your gable roof you ll need wooden boards cut into joists rafters supports and a ridge board in addition to sheathing felt paper and shingles. For lower pitches a built up or continuous roll roofing must be applied to keep the roof waterproof.