Hip Roof Rafters Layout

With a square roof the ridge becomes a square center piece kingpost with side lengths equal to common rafter thickness.

Hip roof rafters layout.

Roof battens lath hip end side roof battens lath main roof side wall plate or inferior purlin cut corner connection roof covering materials layout hip end roof covering layout main roof. The ridge beam runs along horizontally along the top of the roof and is supported by the other rafters. Http amzn to 2sfscbz swanson speed square http amzn to 2svgnvt 16 x 24 framing square starrett http amzn to 2sflm5v milwaukee circular saw http amzn. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.

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. The types of rafters used in a hip roof include common jack hip and ridge beam rafters. S5 s8 s9 s12 s21 s24 s29 32 jack rafters layout right side. Hip backing angle 15 4.

Hip roof framing plan truss layout jack rafters layout left side. Outside top plate edge to ridge top edge common 10 11 3 4.