Stick Framing A Hip Roof

Complicated steep hip roofs.

Stick framing a hip roof.

There are two common ways of framing the roof of a house. Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates. It s not good for lumber to get wet either. Stick framing creates a triangle between the rafters and ceiling joists.

Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses. It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features. Stick framing a roof requires framers to spend much more time on scaffolding ladders and above ground which means more chance for accidents. Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles.

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. And the cons of stick framing. All the work must be done on the site which is controlled by weather rain mud wind cold heat.

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. 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. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features.