Stick Framing A Gambrel Roof

Overhangs hips and dormers add greatly to the complexity of the framing.

Stick framing a gambrel roof.

A stick framed roof uses 2x4 s or 2x6 s or whatever you are framing with but has a ridge board running down the middle ridge line. Roof framing can be simple or complex depending on the roof. Gambrel roofs are symmetrical with two slopes on each side of the roof. Stick truss roof framing.

Shed roofs are usually the easiest type to connect to an existing roof when adding on. 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. A rhode island builder shows how he built trusses for this classic roof shape right on the job site simplifying a procedure that can be slow and cumbersome. If you plan on building and installing your own gambrel roof you ll have to draw out plans first to determine the proper dimensions.

Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles. Gambrel definition the hock of an animal especially of a horse. By joe stanton issue 141. Framing a gambrel roof site built trusses are a speedy way to frame this traditional barn shaped roof.

You then have rafters running down from this ridge board and resting on the top wall plates. Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates. There are several roof types. The project architect briefly discusses the.

With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. The gable roof hip roof gambrel roof flat roof shed roof mansard roof and many more custom roof types. There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house.