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Hip Roof Framing
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" in the second floor in the master bedroom, orient us there."
" We're in this area here. The ocean's out here and we're in this master bedroom area here. Now, that's, that's a hip roof that we're gonna frame there.-"
" This is a true hip proof right here that's cracked, and this is gonna be all exposed TNG."
" Oh really?"
" So there would be no dry wall in that area at all."
" What's this huge timber that's on the floor here? Is that part of it?"
" This actually is the hip rafters."
" It is."
" This is a 6 x 12, 30 feet long."
" Only in the west do we see beautiful lumber like this. So this is actually the hip rafters that will go from"
" This will go from the corner here."
" From the corner of the house"
" All the way across. There would be a king post on top of this header over here."
" Okay, and then are the rafter ends being left exposed?"
" The rafters are gonna have a detailed cut on them."
" Oh really, a real nice detail of the architecture is [unk] Spanish colonial."
" Just look at that."
" Yeah, that's [unk]."
" Yeah, let's look at that."
" Hey Rock."
" C'mon, can you stop a second?"
" Okay."
" How did you make these? How you cut these out?"
" Well what we did is we had these, these are the 4 x 10s, these would be jack rafters."
" Ah."
" It's part of the roof."
" You had a template, huh?"
" We have a template, and we stacked this all up. The architect actually gave us a template first, and we transferred it on to a piece of OSB so that we can use this to cut out our rafters."
" These are oriented strand or [unk] piece of scrap."
" Right."
" So, you've made 3 to 4 different cuts already, huh?"
" Right. What we've done is we racked the rafters. All these rafters will be together like this-"
" Uh huh. We lay out the rafters. This is called the bird's mouth or the C-cut."
" When this is upside down, this is part of the rafter that sits on the top blade of the [unk]."
" This bears on the wall, that's correct."
" And then over here, we've got a notch."
" This detail here is part of the detail the architectural detail that we have on the rafter tail."
" And now we're putting in scrawls, kind of an old cheek cut on the end of it with a wonderful tool. Let's start to go back to work there."
" Portable [unk], portable [unk]. That is an excellent tool. Okay. I bet [unk] would appreciate it if we'd carry some of these upstairs."
" I'm sure you would."
" Right. Alright. Now, what kind of a cut is that at the opposite end of the rafters from there?"
" Yeah. We've got a cheek cut above on the top end here."
" Cheek?"
" That cheek cut is a compound minor cut."
" Okay."
" It's got 2 different planes, that's all it means."
" Yeah."
" The angles are cut both from the horizontal and the vertical line."
" Right, right."
" So let's look at the big picture here. Why are they putting this first rafter up against the wall?"
" They're putting this rafter up so they can get the exact height of the hips, where the hip needs to come in."
" Now, the hip is this?"
" This timber right here."
" This timber right here, which is a 300-foot long, 6 x 12."
" 6 x 12."
" And that also has a cheek cut on [unk]."
" We've got enough guys here to lift this."
" Well I hope so."
" We're gonna do, gonna use physics here."
" Okay. Oh good. Nice job. Okay. Okay now, this is just temporarily held in place up there by that 2 x 4. All of the other jack studs, I mean jack rafters are all cut, pre-cut with the same cheek cut."
" This is a cheek cut, that's correct and if I bring this up an angle, once he gets to the point where he intersects with the hip"
" Yeah."
" You'll see that this is a plumb cut here and 45-degree angle cut here."
" Okay. Now, this is all being assembled with He's gonna come back down and he's gonna go into the C-cut. Gonna come out, there we go. There we go."
" This is all being assembled with temporary"
" With temporary [unk]"
" block."
" This all gets hard [unk] where did you get [unk] together?"
" Exactly, that's right."
" Also the metal scraps that go on."
" That's correct."
" Now, it's only at the 250-pound capacity. Great. Now that really gives you a perfect, you know, perfect vision of what this hip roof is all about."
" That's exactly where"
" You see all the rafters and beautiful framing."
" Yeah, it is beautiful framing. It basically is the same kind of framing that was done a couple of hundred years ago."
" Right, right."
" Now, what's next? The sheets?"
" The next thing is we put a 2 x 6 TNG sheeting on that. That remains exposed also."