Timber Pitched Roof Construction

Covers flat roof materials and flat roof construction of warm and cold roofs.

Timber pitched roof construction.

A pitched roof construction is the classic old school way of roof construction. Covers an overview of flat and pitched roofs. This can be determined by the size of the timbers or the size of the roof. In this method there are joists and rafters.

Covers pitched roof detail. A trussed roof will often rest on a timber wall plate as with a conventional one. There are a couple of different methods for constructing pitched style roofs. Part 4 flat roof construction.

With rafters collars ties struts ridges underpurlins ceiling joists hanging beams combination hanging and strutting beams pitching plates and so on. Part 1 a guide to roof construction. One pitched roof construction method is a cut roof method. Building a pitched roof prefabricated trusses the latter stages of construction felt battening tiling remain the same regardless of the framing method used.

The two basic construction methods of pitched roofs are. Part 3 pitched roof detail. Prefabricated trusses which are delivered to site and erected. 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.

A truss roof using factory made trusses which are delivered to site complete and just erected. Roof ridges and ridge tiles roof hips and hip tiles roof valleys roof verges and lead flashings. A traditional method of cutting timber on site and building up the roof using rafters joists purlins ridge boards etc. There are two basic methods of pitched roof construction.

A pitched roof uses not only the external wall systems but also particular parts of the internal walls.