Setting Out A Roof
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Setting out a roof. Attach 4 6 centering rafters and lift the ridge beam into place. Measure as precisely as possible down to the 1 4 inch 0 64 cm 1 8 inch 0 32 cm or 1 16 inch 0 16 cm. For example the width of the building may be 72 75 inches 184 8 cm. Roof trusses arrive at the jobsite on the bed of a large truck.
How to set roof trusses diagram and layout. Pitch is the amount of angle or slope the roof has. This is denoted two ways a 1 3 or 1 4 pitch in fractions and a 6 12 pitch in inches which means the roof rises 6 inches for each 12 inches of run. The first step in the process of erecting the hip roof is to get the ridge beam into place at the top of the roof.
Place the 4 6 common rafters in their designated positions along the 2 longest walls and nail them firmly to the wall with a nail gun. Use a pencil to jot the width down somewhere. Write on a spare sheet of paper or a section of exposed wood.