How Stick Frame Hip Roof

Most roofs utilize 16 inch spacings for strength and rigidity.

How stick frame hip roof.

There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. There are a couple of ways to lay out a hip roof at the ridge. The rafters are usually positioned directly above the wall studs.

With single cheek cuts or double cheek cuts. Like wall studs and floor joists rafters and trusses are spaced every 16 or 24 inches from center to center. Especially when we set 4 by or 6 by lvl hips using a forklift it is easier to drop the hip into a nice pocket. Attach 4 6 centering rafters and lift the ridge beam into place.

Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. Stick framing combines roof rafters with ceiling joists. Stick framing can also produce. 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.

Place the 4 6 common rafters in their designated positions along the 2 longest walls and nail them firmly to the wall with a nail gun. The first step in the process of erecting the hip roof is to get the ridge beam into place at the top of the roof.