Fram A Roof On The Ground

Start by marking the plumb line the horizontal line that marks where the wall will meet the rafter.

Fram a roof on the ground.

You should be able. Then it occurred to me that my crew and i could eliminate the danger and discomfort of framing and shingling a roof by doing everything on the ground. Measure your seat cuts. Building on the ground allows us to have a team working on the roof right from the beginning of the project rather than only starting the roof once the foundation and walls are completed.

Line up the square with the plumb line then rotate it 180 degrees realigning the square on the other side of the. Another way to stage it on the ground if your not going to frame anything in just preassemble packages is to take some joists and build a rim board floor to set them on. Don t shy away from lifting up packages of 8 trusses at a time 16 material to brace them together. Simple cottage hip or gable roof would be faster to just frame in place.

Once the ground assembled roof component system is installed install ground bracing to the first truss in the system as outlined in b1. This kind of multi tasking shortens the entire build cycle as the mostly completed roof is set in place as soon as the walls are ready to receive it. And they are really easy to set at least in the situations i ve experienced. Each subsequent truss can then be hoisted into place installed and braced.

This assembly can be used as an anchorage point for installing conventional fall protection. I was more than a little excited by the idea.