Timber Pitched Roof Construction

Covers an overview of flat and pitched roofs.

Timber pitched roof construction.

A pitched roof construction is the classic old school way of roof construction. A trussed roof will often rest on a timber wall plate as with a conventional one. In this method there are joists and rafters. There are also a number of other framed constructions such as portal frame roofs.

The two basic construction methods of pitched roofs are. Roof ridges and ridge tiles roof hips and hip tiles roof valleys roof verges and lead flashings. Part 4 flat 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.

A traditional method of cutting timber on site and building up the roof using rafters joists purlins ridge boards etc. This can be determined by the size of the timbers or the size of the roof. There are two basic methods of pitched roof construction. Each truss is lifted into position and fixed to the plate.

Part 1 a guide to roof construction. This is more of a traditional manner in regards to cutting the timber while onsite and building up the roof by the use of rafters ridge boards joists and purlins among others. Part 3 pitched roof detail. One pitched roof construction method is a cut roof method.

There are a couple of different methods for constructing pitched style roofs. A truss roof using factory made trusses which are delivered to site complete and just erected. Covers flat roof materials and flat roof construction of warm and cold roofs. Prefabricated trusses which are delivered to site and erected.

Building a pitched roof prefabricated trusses the latter stages of construction felt battening tiling remain the same regardless of the framing method used.