Jack Rafters Hip Roof

Use the hip roof calculator for an easier way to get started.

Jack rafters hip roof.

At the birdsmouth i supplied the 3 inch seat and for the rafter tail a 12 inch overhang with a 2 inch high subfascia plumb cut which dictated the level cut at the heel. The jack rafters in turquoise connect from the plate in red to the hip rafter and are of different lengths depending on where on the slope they are placed. When you create a hip roof in a timber frame there are different types of rafters used. The first step is to enter the length of the longest jack rafter.

The total rise of hip and valley rafters is. Select the following information by using the drop downs to enter values in feet and inches. The hip rafters in purple form the roofline and extend from the plate to the ridge. A jack rafter is a shortened com mon rafter that may be framed to a hip rafter a valley rafter or both.

All the complicated trigonometry calculations are done for you and there s loads more in there too like diminishing jack measurements and hip rafter lengths and angles as well. They must must be on the same level. Rafter is called for only when framing a hip roof but a valley rafter is needed on both hip and gable roofs whenever roof planes intersect. Thus there are hip jack rafters and valley jack rafters.

The hip roof framing calculator returns the value of the main rafter the side rafter the length of the hip the height of the knee wall and the lengths of the jack rafters. I use it with an adjustable stanley quick square and can cut the whole roof on the ground take all the timbers up and assemble the lot in one go. If more are needed then simply start over by entering the last measurement in the longest jack rafter field. The 7 12 pitch hip roof is framed with 2x6 common and jack rafters on 16 inch centers and with 2x8 hips and ridge.

Measure the distance between the angled hip rafter and the top of the wall at 20 in 51 cm increments and cut jack rafters to fit. Know that the basic skeleton for the roof has to be erected before any jack rafters can be installed. Since the jack rafters are at an angle to the hip rafter some compound cutting is required to create their housing into the hip rafter.