Stick Framing A Hip Roof

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

Stick framing a hip roof.

All the work must be done on the site which is controlled by weather rain mud wind cold heat. And the cons of stick framing. Complicated steep hip roofs. With premanufactured trusses or with rafters and ceiling joists commonly called stick framing.

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. 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. 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. A collar beam adds strength to the triangle at the middle.

It s not good for lumber to get wet either. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. Rafters must be notched on their bottom edges to fit on the wall plates. Stick framing a roof requires framers to spend much more time on scaffolding ladders and above ground which means more chance for accidents.

It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features. Stick framing can also produce more complicated hip gambrel and mansard roofs or a combination of roof styles. Gable and hip roofs may be built primarily of trusses.