Stick Framing A Hip Roof

There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house.

Stick framing a hip roof.

A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. 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.

Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates. It s not good for lumber to get wet either. Other roof shapes particularly those with dormers or on houses with cathedral ceilings attic rooms or attic storage areas are stick built. A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle.

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. Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses. All the work must be done on the site which is controlled by weather rain mud wind cold heat. Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists.

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. 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.