Framing A Hip Porch Roof

Nail the jack rafters to the hip rafters and secure them to the walls.

Framing a hip porch roof.

Depending on the size of the roof most hip roofs will have 4 6 short jack rafters that are spaced out every 20 inches 51 cm between the hip rafters and the king common rafters. It s because all the sides of the roof will slope downward to your house walls. Making a hip roof onsite carpentry. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.

Hip porch roof framing this style that can be used for framing your porch is a little complex or more difficult to make. First of all you need to design the layout of building. A few problems but nothing a carpenter can t handle. 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.

In this video i show you an overview how we start with our concrete pier brackets cut our large cedar timber and fi. When building a porch roof with trusses on this type porch the corner and subsequent trusses are built a little differently due to the slope of the roof. As you can see the truss angles are constructed to maintain the same slope. There are also no gables plus the slope of it is normally relatively gentle and also gives a lower appearance.

Ever wondered how to frame a hip porch. Subscribe to this old house. Next soffit framing is installed along the roofs edge. Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing.

Now draw the centerlines for all rectangles that are formed inside. Here roofs are constructed with an angle of 90 degrees.