Framing For A Hip Roof

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Framing for a hip roof.

Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof. Subscribe to this old house. 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. This video explains in detail how to build a hip roof.

Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing. There are a couple of ways to lay out a hip roof at the ridge.