So this is just a another short video on the erection procedure further in this time a
Hip Roof
and in some cases this is actually easier than doing a gable, especially when they're actually
constructing it because there's not as much propping
and that sort of stuff that needs to be done
But anyway the first part's pretty much the same as a Gable roof, so if you remember from the Gable Roof
Video just remember before we start
Constructing our actual roof section. We need to make sure that when we mark out for our roof
We can then cut our ceiling frame around
Where it's going to go so remember ceiling frame
Could be in place, and I'm going to take it out of the picture so that it's not as confusing
So first thing as before
With our gable roof what we want to do is position
our two sets of centering rafters now the position of them is
the distance of the Half Span back from the outside edge of this plate, so
I'll just turn my guides on here for a second let see this line here. It's half the distance between
This plate and this plate
Which is called the half span and if you measure the same distance from this end back to there
the same distance from this end back to here that will give us the centerline measurement of where our centering rafter goes and
This will give us the centerline measurement of our crown end rafter, so that's how we set out for our gable roof
Sorry hip roof so 1/2 span
Same distance back this way will give you the centerline of your after I'll turn those guides back off
So we've position our centering rafters first as we did with our hip roof
We throw in our Ridge
and then it needs to go the same distance apart as
the actual rafters this time and
As with the gable roof the roof will be a little bit unstable at this stage it will want to wobble back and forwards so the next thing
we need to throw in is what call Crown End Rafters and as I said they're positioned on the centreline onto
that mark or the half span dimension that we had earlier
So they are our crown end rafters
And the next step is to put in our hips which
Come off the corners
Pretty easy one thing you might have to do
or a common step at this stage is to go around and cut
these Corners back a little bit, so
I don't know if I've actually done it on here. I haven't but you can cut
this little corner off the width of your
your hip
So that it actually butts in the back of the bird's mouth but see into a square corner and doesn't butt up against that
that sharp corner
So the hips go in
And then really doesn't matter which way you go now you can put your centering rafters in I prefer to finish off my
creeper rafters so all your creepers can go in and
Then you're centering rafters
Sorry your common rafters, and that's got all your ear rafters and your creepers in
then we can still worry about supporting the roof so once again
I have to put our purlins in and you'll notice different do hip roof our purlins actually go right round the roof now and
Then we have to strut them back to something and you
woul] have noticed with my
Ceiling frame this case I've got two
hangers here, which in this case are actually combined hanging and strutting beams because not only are they taking the weight of
the ceiling but they're also taking the
weight of the struts or the weight Transfered down the struts
onto the Beams
So there you go that is the erection procedure
for a
very simple Hip Roof as I said
a little bit simpler
then a gable Roof even