How To Stick Frame A Roof

Framing a roof is the last step in framing new construction.

How to stick frame a roof.

No matter which kind of roof. For professional framing crews stick framing a roof is just as simple as setting roof trusses although it takes a little longer which translates into higher labor charges. The run or half the building span is the base of the triangle. There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house.

Stick truss roof framing. While most home builders will outsource the construction of roofing trusses the rafter supports of the roof itself learning to frame a roof yourself is one of the true arts of carpentry and a basic primer is covered below. Stick framed roof is built one member at a time. This is the process by which your framing contractor will use ordinary or dimensional lumber to create the roof frame.

And the line length measurement from the roof peak to the building wall is the hypotenuse. There are two types of roof systems commonly in use today. Use 1 2 in 1 3 cm plywood to cover the entire surface of your roof. Standard stick framing or the newer truss framing.

Place a piece of the plywood on the bottom corner of your roof making sure the edges are on a rafter beam. Use construction nails 6 in 15 cm apart to secure the plywood around the outer perimeter and along each support. This will the first point of the rafter measurement line using the results of your rafter length calculation measure from this point along the rafter measurement. From one end of the rafter material using a speed square or framing square mark an x in 12 angle on the rafter and cut it measure down y height from the long point of the rafter cut and make a mark.

This process uses pre built wood forms to build the roof frame. Put roof sheathing on top of your roof. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. Stick framed roofs utilize individual rafters that span from the top of exterior walls to the ridge.

The rise or height of the roof at its peak is the altitude of the triangle. Roof framing rafter layout.