How To Frame A Hip Roof Porch

Begin by measuring and cutting the wood then move on to installing the rafters and sheathing.

How to frame a hip roof porch.

We show you the steps involved and calculations required for buildng a roof for your porch or constructing one over your deck or patio. 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. Hip roofs drain water well and leaves don t build up on them. Building a porch roof requires basic carpentry and porch roof framing knowledge.

While it s common to build hip roofs from trusses or premade frames it is possible to build your own hip roof. Porch roof extensions for hip roof porch extensions from an existing building wall you can use half the calculator results. Now outline the biggest rectangle inside the building layout. Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing.

Subscribe to this old house. Minus ridge thickness to allow for ridge becoming pole plate roof peak will be slightly higher ridge thick must be same. Enter the extension wall length into wall length and double the extension wall width then minus ridge thickness into the wall width entries. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.

Here roofs are constructed with an angle of 90 degrees. We show you how both a typical rafter style porch and truss roof area constructed. First of all you need to design the layout of building.