Stick Framing A Gambrel Roof

Roof framing can be simple or complex depending on the roof.

Stick framing a gambrel roof.

Shed roofs are usually the easiest type to connect to an existing roof when adding on. 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. You then have rafters running down from this ridge board and resting on the top wall plates. There are several roof types.

Gambrel roofs are symmetrical with two slopes on each side of the 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. A gambrel roof is a popular roof style on many contemporary barns and sheds. Gambrel definition the hock of an animal especially of a horse.

Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles. Overhangs hips and dormers add greatly to the complexity of the framing. 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. Gambrel and mansard roofs offer more head height for attic rooms.

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. Framing a gambrel roof site built trusses are a speedy way to frame this traditional barn shaped roof. By joe stanton issue 141.

Stick truss roof framing. 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. The project architect briefly discusses the.