How To Join An Uneven Roof

We measured from the ridge to the sleepers to get the lengths of the jacks and then cut them and fastened them into place.

How to join an uneven roof.

Remove siding from the house where the new roof will attach to expose rafters or other framing of the old roof. Put on a pair of work gloves. Draw a diagonal line between 9 feet the run of the main roof on the tongue of the square and 7 feet 6 inches the secondary roof run on the blade. How to tie a additions roof to existing roof roof designs to attach to existing home how to construct a roof from an exsisting shead how to attach a deck roof to existing roof how to add a roof over porch cost to tie into existing roof attache porch roof on house attach shed roof to house adding a roof to screened in porch adding a roof to existing.

To let the jacks sit plumb on top of the sleepers we angled the level cuts to the 3 1 2 in 12 pitch of the shed roof setting the circular saw to a 16 degree bevel the degree equivalent of a 3 1 2 in 12 pitch. Connect a flat roof to a sloped or pitched roof with a ledger board. Framing a roof of uneven pitch. Identify the roof areas that you will join.

All of the principles necessary for framing such a roof have been developed. It remains for the student to make the applications to uneven pitches. Not infrequently a roof must be framed in which several pitches are involved. Unit run of the hip.

This gives the angle of the hip rafter.