Framing A Roof Corner

Keeping the outside edge of the blade flush with the edge of the plywood slide the square until the 12 inch mark on the tongue intersects with the hip.

Framing a roof corner.

Check for squareness by measuring diagonally from each. Lay your square in the corner of the plywood drawing working from the side of the diagonal line that represents the main roof. This is the basic problem involved in determining the length of a roof rafter a brace or any other member that forms the hypotenuse of an actual or imaginary right triangle. You might find it helpful to assemble the wall on the floor nail it together and then raise it into place.

When you construct a new wall there are some framing trick you need to know especially when framing a wall corner. Measure form the top of this line down the board to determine the line length or length of the rafter less the ridge. The framing square is used most frequently to find the length of the hypotenuse longest side of a right triangle when the lengths of the other two sides are known. Add the length of the overhang beyond this mark and.

Lay out the top and bottom plates on edge inserting the wall studs between the plates and nailing them in place at the. Nail the end stud of the short wall to the post corner with pairs of framing nails at each spacer block from bottom to top.