Stick Framing A Gambrel Roof

There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house.

Stick framing a gambrel roof.

The project architect briefly discusses the. Overhangs hips and dormers add greatly to the complexity of the framing. Gambrel definition the hock of an animal especially of a horse. A gambrel roof is a popular roof style on many contemporary barns and sheds.

Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates. Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles. By joe stanton issue 141. There are several roof types.

Framers stick building a hip roof you can learn a great deal about roof framing by understanding the concepts of framing a gable or shed roof. A rhode island builder shows how he built trusses for this classic roof shape right on the job site simplifying a procedure that can be slow and cumbersome. Gambrel and mansard roofs offer more head height for attic rooms. The gable roof hip roof gambrel roof flat roof shed roof mansard roof and many more custom roof types.

If you plan on building and installing your own gambrel roof you ll have to draw out plans first to determine the proper dimensions. Shed roofs are usually the easiest type to connect to an existing roof when adding on. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. A stick framed roof uses 2x4 s or 2x6 s or whatever you are framing with but has a ridge board running down the middle ridge line.

Framing a gambrel roof site built trusses are a speedy way to frame this traditional barn shaped roof. 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. You then have rafters running down from this ridge board and resting on the top wall plates.