How To Make A Small Hip Roof

The hip roof is also very popular in north america.

How to make a small hip roof.

This roof style maximizes the amount of usable space in the attic or top floor. Rick arnold frequent contributor to fine homebuilding and the journal of light construction presenter at jlc live the katz roadshow the remodeling show. This is also known as the barn roof as this style is often used on barns. Nail the plywood sheathing to.

Hipped roof construction can seem quite complicated to grasp at first but i m going to break it down and explain each area in detail. In a hip roof all sides of the roof have a gentle slope towards the sides of the walls. I ll start at the beginning with the easy bits before tackling the more complicated stuff and that way hopefully i ll make it really clear and easy to understand exactly how to set out measure cut and install hip and valley roof 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.

Determine the number of plywood sheets you ll need. Nail the jack rafters to the hip rafters and secure them to the walls. Hip rafters must be dropped or backed so that the edges of the rafter won t interfere with the roof sheathing. It essentially implies that the house has no gables or vertical sides as is usually witnessed in the other types of roofs.

A hip roof uses the same basic shape but is elongated and is designed for a rectangular building. Select drop the hip or back the hip from the dropdown list. A hip roof is basically a roof with sloping sides like all other building jobs it requires precision and accuracy to build. It is a variant of a hip roof depicting a small modification at the top of the gable.

I show how i construct it showning in detail how to do the lead flashing. This is part two of the porch build where i am doing the roof. Depending on the size of the roof most hip. Finishing the hip roof 1.