Framing A Roof Corner

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.

Framing a roof corner.

Position the square at the end of the rafter board with the tongue on your left and facing away from you. When you construct a new wall there are some framing trick you need to know especially when framing a wall corner. 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. Check for squareness by measuring diagonally from each.

This video will show you one trick. Nail the overhanging portion of the top plate at the setback of the long. 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. 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.

Lay out the top and bottom plates on edge inserting the wall studs between the plates and nailing them in place at the. Lay your square in the corner of the plywood drawing working from the side of the diagonal line that represents the main roof.