Hips And Valley Roof Construction

Tie down fixings tie down fixings are used to resist uplift and shear forces lateral loads in floor framing wall framing and roof framing.

Hips and valley roof construction. Part 1 a guide to roof construction covers an overview of flat and pitched roofs. First of all you need to design the layout of building. To get the most out of it is helpful to also read parts 1 and 2. A hip and valley roof may be part of an irregular structure.

Roof ridges and ridge tiles roof hips and hip tiles roof valleys roof verges and lead flashings. A roof design gives the chance to extra floor space in the roof volume similar to a space or upper room space. This video shows the erection procedure for a broken hip and valley roof. Main features hip and valley roof design.

Parts of a roof 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. Attach 4 6 centering rafters and lift the ridge beam into place. Such buildings may have more than four hips in the roofs and they form valleys at the inside corners. Place the 4 6 common rafters in their designated positions along the 2 longest walls and nail them firmly to the wall with a nail gun.

The first step in the process of erecting the hip roof is to get the ridge beam into place at the top of the roof. This type of roof is also called broken back hip and valley roof because the main hips are intconeected by the rafter of gables on one side and the rafter of the valley on the other. Hip and valley roof framing is no so complex as compared to hip roof framing procedures. Broken hip and valley roof are formed on an l shaped building when the two sides ar.

Part 3 of the four part guide to roof construction covers pitched roof detail.