Overbuild Roof Framing

Up from the valley center.

Overbuild roof framing.

Replacing a roof can be expensive but if a roof contains only a small slope it s possible to raise the roof pitch of a house by building a roof over the old one. Nail 2 boards onto your walls as top plates. Use 8 penny nails to attach the first 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm board to the wall studs. The option would to frame it true meaning the joining roofs would share a common connection ie.

Hip or valley rafter. 10016 chief architect quick tip roof design. If the unit of rise in inches is 3 then the cut is the unit of rise and the unit of run 12 inches or 3 12. The exposed edges of the 3 layers of rigid insulation are no longer exposed.

Figure 2 2 roof framing terms. A third gable roof is joined to a main roof in an overbuild remodeling situation. Bed the end of each shingle in a 2 in wide ribbon of roofing cement placed 4 in. This new roof with a higher pitch can be accomplished with premade roof trusses and typical asphalt shingles.

1030 automatic framing exposed rafter tails sub fascia and sheathing. 1 8 pitch is given so 24 x 1 8 equals 3 or unit of rise in inches. Line length is the hyptenuse of the triangle whose. Use of rafters trusses and a truss base polyline are demonstrated.

A third gable roof is joined to a main roof in an overbuild remodeling situation. Nail the first boards on top of your wall where you plan to build your roof. Box beam gable framing new gable overhang is framed in the form of a box beam hanging off of a new layer of roof plywood roof sheathing cantilevered over the top of the 3 layers of rigid insulation. Re lay the shingles you removed from the existing roof.

Use of rafters trusses and a truss base polyline are demonstrated.