everybody my name is Sam and welcome back to Green Acre Homestead this is part
five of the DIY greenhouse today I'm framing the roof
all right got the camera set up we're on the tripod but also give you guys a
point of view here with the GoPro I'll climb up here find a place to clamp this
take me just a second hang on
all right so I'm siding down this two by six to find where the crown is I'm gonna
make sure it's bowed up if it bows at all it needs to boat up there we go all
right a hard part is going to be to put it on that end down there and then this
one or vice versa I'll see if I can get that in down there
done first to get down and then back up
we'll make sure this is plumb I don't have my level
so let me tack this in place get my level I'll be right back you should keep
it from falling on me hope all right this ain't it secure this in is secure
it's not gonna go anywhere it's not gonna fall off it's braced up well this
is only temporary what really is gonna hold the weight of this Ridge are gonna
be the rafters that are added on later so I'm not worried about really making
this a rock-solid joint just yet I will come back and add stuff later but I got
to see where my rafters line up so I don't get in my way of my rafters with
blocking next up is to go over there and do the exact same thing on that side
pinned up pretty good not gonna go where it is stable enough to move or not to
move and now I can start framing my rafters and cut them to place and keep
on keeping on with this project the ridge beam is in place and that is
pretty easy as you can see this is a method of doing it one person angel
should be out here helped me in a little bit she's finished up some things in the
house but I'm taking advantage of not having any rain because rain is coming
we've had a lot of rain lately - just get work done like I'm I'm working
that's all I'm doing with the ridge beam in place now I can grab some two by
fours which are my rafters hold them up scribe the mark cut them and put them in
place I hope this goes easily and quickly so cross your fingers dot your
i's and cross your T's for me not the spelling makes a difference but by the
way let's go
all that process was was me finding the exact cuts to make for this rafter and
then double-checking it and cutting it and double checking and double-checking
and cutting to allow me to know that I can copy this one and repeat it for this
entire side of the greenhouse so and he just brought up the chop saw and we're
gonna start chopping these things out and yeah that's what we do
those processes going pretty quick so I took it off a time lapse let you guys
see kind of talk a little bit about it we've got the tin plate here on top
Angela lines up that end down there and then down here to make my mark for the
bird's mouth cut which is this part then we move it down a little bit
she holds that in I take the circular saw and I cut as far as I can and then
with the other saw finish out it goes
I've got all the pieces cut ten we get up here and put them in place they are
going to match right on top of every single wall stud so that it looks
uniform and strong and honestly so I don't think as much for my rafter
spacing I just line them up and we're good so keeping it easy my plan of
attack is to attach all the rafters on the bottom first and then move to the
ridge beam and put them up there and I'll use my speed square to make sure
they're square it up and everything so that they're correct oh yeah
there is half of the roof done and it went too bad I guess I mean it wasn't
easy but nothing's ever easy so fun to bed know that strap we use to fix the
bow in the ridge beam it bowed in the middle so we use the strap to pull it
over as best we could and it worked got it done next step is
to go ahead and start framing and building the other side of the roof now
the reason I didn't cut all the rafters just all exactly the same for both sides
is because I know the left and right side are not the same it's just it's not
the way it's gonna work so I'll make a template for one and then I'll check it
all the way down and if it looks good then I'll replicate it and copy it if it
doesn't I'll adjust
hey we are done ruin the roof I still have to put in collar ties so he wanted
you gonna say collar ties don't worry I'm gonna do it for those of you don't
know a collar ties are stay tuned I'll show you next time but thank you yeah
yeah but you know what it was once I said the boards on the boards I guess
okay just trying to help you up anyway that is it for today and part two three
four five I think it's five of the greenhouse
build I don't know for this part that's the end I accomplished what I wanted to
with the short little time we had to work with overall it went okay it wasn't
too difficult the hardest part was fighting the wind fighting the wind
that's what you struggled with a lot which you got a big giant hat you were
yeah would you like that your favorite hat right it is all right put a hat it's
very important in this hat to luring jewelry my jewelry talking I don't wear
jewelry I wear Tuileries all right all right everybody we appreciate you
watching as always leave us a comment down below we love reading them and
we'll see you next time next time we're on the homestead bye bye
I wanted to go ahead and finish out this whole video to finish out the framing of
the roof with the collar ties ridge rafters board Buster's for whatever you
wanna call them they stiffen up the rafters and really lock it all together
the only thing this greenhouse is ever gonna have to support is itself the
plastic and then whatever snow we might get which honestly hasn't been that much
in the past five years even when we do get snow it will melt very quickly out
here on the seat seat and the southern heat and Sun that's what seat is so I'm
not too worried about it not having a collar town every single rafter really
it doesn't need it there's three in the middle the both of the ends act as two
more so there's five total on a 16 foot span it'll be all right all right guys
that completes the roof rafter framing build whatever we get a big old fat done
stamp and stamp it the roof framing is done
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