Fram A Roof On The Ground

Measure your seat cuts.

Fram a roof on the ground.

This kind of multi tasking shortens the entire build cycle as the mostly completed roof is set in place as soon as the walls are ready to receive it. And they are really easy to set at least in the situations i ve experienced. Simple cottage hip or gable roof would be faster to just frame in place. Given the risks involved with wrestling with heavy materials in high winds far above solid ground i d rather pass.

You should be able. Each subsequent truss can then be hoisted into place installed and braced. Frame roof on ground although they are close to the ground framing porch roofs on the ground is super convenient because you can do all the beam work too. Then it occurred to me that my crew and i could eliminate the danger and discomfort of framing and shingling a roof by doing everything on the ground.

Line up the square with the plumb line then rotate it 180 degrees realigning the square on the other side of the. Don t shy away from lifting up packages of 8 trusses at a time 16 material to brace them together. Another way to stage it on the ground if your not going to frame anything in just preassemble packages is to take some joists and build a rim board floor to set them on. This assembly can be used as an anchorage point for installing conventional fall protection.

While you re at it some carpenters. Once the ground assembled roof component system is installed install ground bracing to the first truss in the system as outlined in b1.