Stick Framing A Hip Roof

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

Stick framing a hip roof.

A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. It s not good for lumber to get wet either. Complicated steep hip roofs. All the work must be done on the site which is controlled by weather rain mud wind cold heat.

With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick 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. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built.

The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof. And the cons of stick framing. There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house. Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists.

Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses. A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle. Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates.