Framing On A Trailer Pitched Roof

Position the square at the end of the rafter board with the tongue on your left and facing away from you.

Framing on a trailer pitched roof.

Landers goes on to explai. For over 3 decades pitched roofs have been the most common manufactured home roof design. See common questions about mobile home roofs here. All of the truss designs are usually placed every 16 or 24 on center.

The amount of rafters needed will depend upon the size of the roof. This will the first point of the rafter measurement line. Here are some advantages of tpo roof overs. Input the pitch of the roof that you calculated above we ll use 7 12 for reference throughout on the framing square.

From one end of the rafter material using a speed square or framing square mark an x in 12 angle on the rafter and cut it. In this 3rd video from our 3 part house framing series pro framer larry haun demonstrates how to build the roof for a modest size house. Bob confers with contractor larry landers as landers and his crew assemble the front porch framework on the wayland project house. Robin is working on an extension so we thought we d shadow him for the day and see how he creates a pitched roof or semi pitched roof leading up to a flat.

Rafter layout with a framing square. They are suitable for flat or pitched roofs. More expensive manufactured home will have better framing and a shorter distance between the roof trusses. It is simply a reflective mat that can be rolled and applied directly to your roof or onto a frame fitted on top of the original roof.

The rafters should be placed every 2 4 inches for proper support of the roof. On the body of the square the longer side input the 12 and input the 7 on the tongue the shorter side of the square by lining up the stair gauges at the corresponding point on the square. The rafters should be in a triangular form with an additional piece of 2 x 4 going straight up the center. Position the square with both the 8 inch on the outside edge of the tongue and the 12 inch on the blade on the upper edge of the board.

Roof framing rafter layout.