The Complicated Roof – A Cut and Stack Workbook

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Increase your roof framing knowledge and understanding as you follow veteran roof cutter Will Holladay through the process of calculating two custom-home roofs.

In The Complicated Roof – A Cut and Stack Workbook, you’ll see the principles of Holladay’s A Roof Cutter’s Secrets come alive. Accompany Will as he methodically builds two “real life” complicated roofs. You’ll see firsthand how to determine angles and calculations for the actual cuts, based on the plans in the back of this book. When you complete the exercises presented, you’ll not only know how to cut complicated roofs faster and more efficiently, you’ll also be able to “think like a roof cutter” and formulate your own plan of approach to actual roof cutting based on a set of plans.

The roof framing details featured in The Complicated Roof – A Cut and Stack Workbook expand on the descriptions found in A Roof Cutter’s Secrets.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface, v
Abbreviations, vi
Book Guidelines, vii

Roof 1- Medford OR 1997, 10/12 Pitch, JD Resner
Construction
Questions 1-1, -2, -3, roof ratios and rafter heelstands, 1
Questions 1-4, -5, -6, -9, common rafters, 1
Questions 1-7, -8, TOR heights, 2
Questions 1-10, -11, -12, -13, -14, -20, regular hips, 4
Questions 1-15, -16, -17, -18, -19, supported valleys, 6
Question 1-21, dual purpose hip/valley, 9
Questions 1-22, -23, -24, -25, ridge lengths, 10
Question 1-26, shed dormer, 11
Question 1-27, wall valley, 12
Questions 1-28, -29, tall wall and rake wall, 13
Questions 1-30, -31, -32, -33, -34, -35, -36, -37, -38, bay roofs, 15
Question 1-39, special gable end commons, 24
Questions 1-40, -41, -42, -43, regular hip and valley jacks, 25
Questions 1-45, -46, regular parallel hip-valley jacks, 27
Question 1-46, regular diverging hip-valley jacks, 27
Question 1-47, over-under intersection, 28
Roof 2 - Monte Sereno CA 2000,6/12 Pitch, SR Freeman
Construction
Phase 1
Questions 2-1, -2, -3, roof ratios and rafter heelstands, 31
Question 2-4, common rafters, 32
Questions 2-5, -6, TOR heights, 32
Question 2-7, regular hips and valleys, 35
Questions 2-8, -9, ridge lengths, 36
Questions 2-10, -11, -22, broken hips, 36
Question 2-12, finding plate height difference, 39
Questions 2-13, -14, regular hip and valley jacks, 40
Questions 2-15, -16, -19, regular parallel hip-valley jacks, 40
Questions 2-17, -18, -20, regular diverging hip-valley jacks, 42
Question 2-21, California framed diverging hip-valley jacks, 44
Question 2-23, roof skeleton schematic, 49
Phase 2
Questions 2-24, -25, common rafters and TOR, 51
Question 2-26, ridge lengths, 53
Question 2-27, V6 and H9, 55
Question 2-28, -32, dogleg hips and valleys, 56
Question 2-29, V7 and H8, 56
Question 2-30, -35, bastard broken hips, 59
Question 2-31, H 10, 60
Question 2-33, DV3 and H11, 61
Question 2-34, BH6, 63
Question 2-36, -37, -38, -39, -40, dormer at R9, 65
Questions 2-41, -42, -43, -44, -45, roof skeleton top connections, 69
Question 2-46, regular hip and valley jacks, 75
Question 2-47, regular parallel hip-valley jacks, 75
Question 2-48, dogleg hip and valley jacks, 75
Question 2-49, bastard broken hip jacks, 76
Questions 2-50, -51, -52, -53, -54, -55, -56, -57, jack fill for non-standard areas, 77
Cut-out copies of Roof Plans, 93