These intersecting eave lines can often be extremely long and require a lot of drawing room on the jobsite.
Sloping ridge roof.
Ways to work on a steeply pitched roof.
In this style one side is longer than the other.
Slope the slope of a roof is represented as x 12 where x is the number of inches in rise for every 12 inches of run.
Compare with bell roof.
East asian hip and gable roof.
This ridge is created by what is called a hip rafter.
The possibility of slipping and falling makes working on any roof dangerous but it s especially so if the roof rises more than 4 feet for every 12 feet of.
This is very useful information for many purposes especially for roof framing the slope sometimes called pitch is calibrated on speed squares.
For that reason three of the most common methods to create an anchor point for work on a sloping roof are outlined below.
A japanese decorative pent roof.
In addition to the horizontal ridge a hip roof has sloping ridges or peaks where adjacent roof planes meet.
A sloping ridge is actually hip rafter so we need to draw out the intersecting eave lines to find the eave angle or point of intersection.
This style of sloping roof types is almost the same as a gable roof.
The saltbox roof can safely be referred to as an off shoot of a gable roof.
The ground plan has two roof slopes that are 35 55 and the ridge is sloping and not parallel to any of the eave lines.
Essentially the spine of a conventional stick framed roof the ridge board is sandwiched between the meeting ends of the roof rafters.
On this house there s a 60 angle off the eave line for one side of the roof.
So drawing it out in a cad program is very helpful but not always practical either.
Using a fixed anchor point.
A roof similar to a mansard but sloped in one direction rather than both.
The ridge is the peak where two sloped roof sections meet.
In this drawing i m using the average rise of 2 1422cm in each profile view of the roof slope triangles that are perpendicular to the eave line to establish the averaging lines that develop the averaging intersecting points that define the hip rafter run lines in plan view.
Part of a roof s frame a ridge board runs horizontally along the peak of a sloped roof.
It gives the house it s own distinct personality.
Using a jamb anchor.
The difference exists in the length of roof panels forming the ridge.
This ridge is created by what is called a hip rafter.
A roof with the shallow slope below the steeper slope at the eaves.
