Parts Of A Roof Framing

It resembles real wood and particularly strong and stable for bearing heavy load.

Parts of a roof framing.

There are various national and local construction codes that dictate the structure of your roof frame. A ridge board is a horizontal member of the roof frame. Some are cut to fit the plate whereas others in hasty. Ridge board v s beam.

The rafters are not framed into the plate but are simply nailed to it. Parts of a roof. Ridge board ridge beam. A purlin is a horizontal piece of timber or metal which supports the roof s rafters or decking and helps to prevent your roof from sagging.

Rafters are sloped beams that run from the roof s ridge to the eaves. The wall and the roof. A composite decking made of solid materials. The rafters and trusses are connected to the ridge board for a cohesive framework.

Roof frame when they build a home contractors will add a wooden frame for the roof on top of the house. A horizontal timber or metal resting at the peak of the roof. The point at which all the raftersare attached to. Transfers the loadof the roof through the raftersto walls below.

Tie down fixings tie down fixings are used to resist uplift and shear forces lateral loads in floor framing wall framing and roof framing. Ridge beam sits below the rafters. The main structural parts of a roof are ceiling joists ridge board jack rafter hip rafter common rafters creeper rafters raking plates out riggers and noggings or last rafter overhang. A hip rafter extends from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.

Supported by lally columns.