Framing Shed Roof Rafters

It rests on top of your wall framing and when done properly serves to keep your shed walls in place while supporting a roof.

Framing shed roof rafters.

Place a nail every three inches along the edges of the gusset. Difference between a rafter and truss. Skillion shed style roof framing. Lower the first rafter truss into place at either the front or back of the shed.

The skillion and shed style roofs are framed with a single slope 2 4 or 2 6 or thicker rafters spanning from the low wall to the high wall. Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. If you plan to have eaves to protect the shed walls make sure you add the extra length when measuring the rafters. Fasten the truss by driving 8d finishing nails at an angle down through the board just above the birdsmouth notch and into the underlying wall plate.

The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. A stick framed roof uses 2x4 s or 2x6 s or whatever you are framing with but has a ridge board running down the middle ridge line. Now build the remaining roof rafters using the original rafter template and the jig on the shed floor. Test the rafter assembly by standing it up and lining it up with the edges of the shed floor.

Sometimes the rafter will have a tail and extend out past the wall so that you have a soffit or overhang. You then have rafters running down from this ridge board and resting on the top wall plates. Use 3 nails for each side. More specifically it is a beam that goes from the peak of your roof down to the eve.

Attach the end rafters to the wall plates of your shed frame.