11 Best Of How To Layout And Cut Hip Rafters Free Download. Draw your plumb cut at the top of your board. He then determines the run and length of the hip rafters and jack rafters.
Layout of ridge plumb and cheek cuts. I make the ridge cut first. On a hip the ridge cut is a little different from the commons because it must fit between two commons Figure 3.
Starting at the upper end of the rafter I mark 18 12-inch centers at 18 12 in 37 in 55 12 in and so onalong one edge of the pattern rafter shown on illustration above and in photo bottom right.
Get some scrap 24 pieces. This gives additional strength and allows extra width for nailing on the jacks. Draw your plumb cut at the top of your board. Using the roof of a small outbuilding as an example Carroll first locates the six king common rafters then uses a table of rafter multipliers to determine the common-rafter lengths.