Structural Roof Framing Plan Details

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Structural roof framing plan details. Types of roofs the most commonly used types of pitched roof construction are the gable the hip the intersecting and the shed or lean to. Ridge beam sits below the rafters. Common types of roofs and basic framing terms. The plan reader should be familiar with roof styles and the rafter components of these designs to calculate roof framing materials and framing labor.

Tie down fixings tie down fixings are used to resist uplift and shear forces lateral loads in floor framing wall framing and roof framing. The framing of a basic gable roof is based on a right angle triangle and the various roof framing components fit the triangle. And the line length measurement from the roof peak to the building wall is the hypotenuse. Ridge board v s beam.

Supported by lally columns. An example of each is shown in figure 2 1. Transfers the loadof the roof through the raftersto walls below. A ridge board is a horizontal member of the roof frame.

The rise or height of the roof at its peak is the altitude of the triangle. Ridge board ridge beam. Parts of a roof. It is the form most commonly used by.

The main structural parts of a roof are ceiling joists ridge board jack rafter hip rafter common rafters creeper rafters raking plates out riggers and noggings or last rafter overhang. Would the framing labor and material for a steep pitch victorian roof be the similar to a colonial. Gable a gable roof has a ridge at the center and slopes in two directions. The point at which all the raftersare attached to.

No framing or structural members are to be modified notched or cut without the approval of the engineer.