Stick Framing A Hip Roof

Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates.

Stick framing a hip roof.

Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing. It s not good for lumber to get wet either.

A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. All the work must be done on the site which is controlled by weather rain mud wind cold heat. There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house. Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built.

It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features. And the cons of stick framing. Stick framing a roof requires framers to spend much more time on scaffolding ladders and above ground which means more chance for accidents. Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists.

Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles. 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. Complicated steep hip roofs.