Stick Framing A Hip Roof

Stick framing a roof requires framers to spend much more time on scaffolding ladders and above ground which means more chance for accidents.

Stick framing a hip roof.

A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. And the cons of stick framing. Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses. A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle.

Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. It s not good for lumber to get wet either. The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof. There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house.

All the work must be done on the site which is controlled by weather rain mud wind cold heat. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles. Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates.

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. 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. Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built.