Stick Built Roof Design

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Pitch is the amount of angle or slope the roof has. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. They are easily changed and manipulated later if needed by either changing up the space removing an attic floor to make a more open room or other modeling plans.

Framers or roofer also have given me feedback about the strength of a trussed roof versus a stick framed roof. It starts with setting ridge and valley beams above the house walls. Then dimensional lumber called rafters are cut to fit one piece at a time and shoved up to a framer on the roof that s balancing on scaffolding who installs the rafters. Although truss designed roofs are predominant throughout most of the residential construction industry there are regions where building with stick frame roofs is still common.

Also different architectural styles will use the same type of roof. A gable roof is a simple symmetrical triangular roof. Putting it together is relatively straight forward if you have basic carpentry skills and use precise measurements. All the trusses built by us come with an engineer seal that say they will handle the loads that are specified.

Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. Stick framing is building the roof on the construction site one piece or board at a time. For lower pitches a built up or continuous roll roofing must be applied to keep the roof waterproof. This is denoted two ways a 1 3 or 1 4 pitch in fractions and a 6 12 pitch in inches which means the roof rises 6 inches for each 12 inches of run.

To build your gable roof you ll need wooden boards cut into joists rafters supports and a ridge board in addition to sheathing felt paper and shingles. In this post randy shackelford discusses some design choices available to stick frame builders the challenges they pose and the solutions offered by the simpson. Here we have a wood framed gable roof. Continuing on from part 3.

As a result you can use our plans for getting building permit estimating project cost and building. Does your stick framed roof come with that.