Roof Move Roof Ridge Framing

Rip the ridge board to the correct width to meet the rafter widths at the ridge.

Roof move roof ridge framing.

Position a ridge board down in the saddles of the supports. Draw a diagonal line between 9 feet the run of the main roof on the tongue of the square and 7 feet 6 inches the secondary roof run on the blade. Supported by lally columns. Ridge board v s beam.

The point at which all the raftersare attached to. A ridge board is a horizontal member of the roof frame. Measure down y height from the long point of the rafter cut and make a mark. In a hip roof with equal pitches the unit run of a hip or valley rafter is 17 inches for every 12 inches of run in the main roof.

The top end of each rafter is cut at an angle so that it meets flush with one broadside of the ridge board and the ridge is sandwiched between the rafters. 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. Unit run of the hip. This gives the angle of the hip rafter.

Watch me stumble through framing up the ridge beam and rafters for the roof of the shed. You can possibly remove them altogether of you include posts in the gable walls to support a structural ridge. Watch me stumble through framing up the ridge beam and rafters for the roof of the shed. In traditional house framing also called stick framing a basic roof frame consists of opposing pairs of sloping rafters that meet at their top ends at a ridge board or ridge beam.

Definition of structural ridge or ridge beam used in roof framing. Transfers the loadof the roof through the raftersto walls below. Rafter ties or ceiling joists acting as rafter ties are required by code unless the house is designed so that the walls or a structural ridge beam carries the full load of the roof. Create a saddle at the top with the braces the height of the building walls plus rise less the width of the ridge board.

Ridge board ridge beam. Ridge beam sits below the rafters. Parts of a roof. Roof framing rafter layout.

Brace these supports in the centerline of the building.