Framing A Hip Porch Roof

Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing.

Framing a hip porch roof.

Hip porch roof framing this style that can be used for framing your porch is a little complex or more difficult to make. Ever wondered how to frame a hip porch. It s because all the sides of the roof will slope downward to your house walls. First of all you need to design the layout of building.

When building a porch roof with trusses on this type porch the corner and subsequent trusses are built a little differently due to the slope of the roof. Now draw the centerlines for all rectangles that are formed inside. Http bit ly subscribethisoldhouse he explains the difference b. As you can see the truss angles are constructed to maintain the same slope.

Making a hip roof onsite carpentry. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. Now outline the biggest rectangle inside the building layout. Hip and valley roof framing is no so complex as compared to hip roof framing procedures.

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. Next soffit framing is installed along the roofs edge. There are also no gables plus the slope of it is normally relatively gentle and also gives a lower appearance. Depending on the size of the roof most hip roofs will have 4 6 short jack rafters that are spaced out every 20 inches 51 cm between the hip rafters and the king common rafters.

Nail the jack rafters to the hip rafters and secure them to the walls. Subscribe to this old house.