Stick Built Roof

Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built.

Stick built roof.

Framers or roofer also have given me feedback about the strength of a trussed roof versus a stick framed roof. Stick framing is building the roof on the construction site one piece or board at a time. Stick framing takes place on site while trusses come prefabricated and ready to. One of the most common is that with a site built roof it s easier to customize the roofline.

Does your stick framed roof come with that. Additional boards are placed horizontally on the frames to create a complete cover for the structure. It starts with setting ridge and valley beams above the house walls. All the trusses built by us come with an engineer seal that say they will handle the loads that are specified.

However constructing a stick framed roof is not always easy. A stick framed roof is made up of individual rafters and that are connected to a top beam. Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses. A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle.

Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists. 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.