How To Build A Cut Roof

The diagram above shows the components that go into making up a small gable roof.

How to build a cut roof.

A horizontal cut called the seat cut and a vertical cut called a shoulder cut. The rafter is cut so it sits down onto the wall plate which is in turn fixed down onto the inside skin of a cavity wall. The ceiling joists span from wall plate to wall plate and are sometimes bolted to the rafters to help stop the ridge. If you re framing a gable roof on a new house or building a shed or even a doghouse with a gable roof you ll need to cut a number of roof rafters.

Pitched roof construction. The rise or height of the roof at its peak is the altitude of the triangle. The seat rests on top of the wall that you re attaching the particular rafter to while the shoulder cut parallels the wall and allows several inches of each rafter to overhang the roof. Robin is working on an extension so we thought we d shadow him for the day and see how he creates a pitched roof or semi pitched roof leading up to a flat.

The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. A birdsmouth cut has 2 parts. The run or half the building span is the base of the triangle.

There are two basic methods of pitched roof construction. A cut roof this is the traditional method of cutting the timber on site and building up the roof using rafters ridge boards joists and purlins etc the exact details being determined by the size of roof size of timbers etc.