Frame A Gable Shed Roof

Nail 2 boards onto your walls as top plates.

Frame a gable shed roof.

Ceiling joists span between parallel walls for added. Raise it up horizontally and hold it in place with a 2 4 resting on the floor in the center of the base piece and one at the top center of the truss. Gable shed roof framing a gable style is the easiest to build but offers very little storage in the attic. Add ceiling joists every 24 in 61 cm on your top plates.

A gable roof for a shed can be built with rafters with a 1 6 ridge board or using trusses. Framing most common types of roof gable roof. Unless of course you have a very steep pitch on your trusses or rafters. Carry a gable end in and set it on the top plate upside down and backwards near the end wall.

Determine the pitch you want for. Your local building codes may also require the use of hurricane ties for each truss member where it rests on the top plate. Then you will have more storage. Set a ladder at the outside of both corners of the end wall.

This step by step woodworking project is about free 10 20 gable shed roof plans this is part 2 of the large shed project where i show you how to build the gable shaped roof and how to make the double doors. Framing the gable ends 1. Use 8 penny nails to attach the first 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm.