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Building a Gable Roof
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" The outside of our little -- gabled dormer is the easy part to build you see the angle of the roof and you understand why it's also known as a doghouse. But dormer from the inside you can see how it's been framed to receive a window right in this opening that the -- here -- the jacks on the side. And then if you look at the roof line at the 912 pitch which means that for every. Twelve inches that we're traveling horizontally from way outside toward the center. We're going up nine inches. That's the easy part the hard part is figuring out how to roof followed -- his. On the part that's not door what you see how the roof rafters simply travel from the doubled up played at the sidewall up to the ridge John -- And it's empty space in between is what ryley's going to help with understand. We're going to do threaten the united do is that again hand across this span here yeah received Iraq -- coming down from the original we're gonna do with establish the ceiling height. And that tells us where we want to place to have okay and they had to report symbolic of structural member that is heading off. The weight of something either. Roof load or in this case these rafters and he's already got it made up here and what you see is. Two to -- sentence that I have been stiffened up with -- pizza package plug of the London runs the whole length. And then we've got a temporary pieces of two by board nailed on to help but hold it up in place there are it is dissident. And okay -- other than that. I was jacket going to nail that in place. Looks good. Got it. Toenail it right in you know. I've -- to tell the whole thing takes a little bit up over the plywood will take care of once we have all the heat in place."
" Step involves building the sidewalls of the dormer with -- call the cheek wall. And Ryley why you started this season. -- well -- inside going to give us a nice clean look where we go into the header we could put the top latest threat that would be looking at. You've Friday and another. -- spits back."
" Little thought here yeah. Even -- Iraq but -- you want it to look good but. Tonight but now the pieces that are the actual vertical stud here on the involve an angle -- you get back. That went on it's going to take a scrap laden and put it where it's laid out. And I use a framing square. To transfer Iraq. This angle into the stud all right. Now what is now on picket and we know that by looking at it it's roughly around thirty degrees so I'm just don't know about an inch off that mark."
" thirty degrees you could do this before. They didn't need whoever thought it would -- have a look I don't my pocket right now. And I'd say that's. Company 32 degrees below. Can actually look like 33."
" And now we'll cut the okay the floor -- plan I'm gonna have all right what is going to the mall. Okay with -- all the plywood in place on the main roof we're ready to put up our little ridge. Or the dormer itself. -- The and he police spaced sixteen inches on center."
" OK so how -- we cut. The rafter that still in this area well what we wanted to bother to establish where this valley is going to be able going to do that by. -- getting the plane of these rafters. Marked onto the plywood. We'll snap a line from the ridge down. There have been. Okay this is not valid now we'll carry out layouts. Sixteen inches on center and cut our Jack rafters will -- measure down and cut our Jack rafters."
" All right now this is probably the most complicated. Stick in the whole little dormer frame it how did you get this angle appeared the cockpit. 912 pitch which as I wrote it vertically right. And -- down here at the valley we've cut the 912 horizontally exactly and then we've cut it into the roof at a 33 degree angle and that relates to the cheek wall that's right. Great those soft that the -- that. My there yeah. Okay in this going to -- a bigger rectangles and I would guess shorter distance. And that just about the."
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