Framing Sloped Roof Garage

Screw the roof plates through the roof boards into the rafters below.

Framing sloped roof garage.

Above the top of the trusses. Four to 6 in. Once your walls are uneven you can build a slanted roof to fit. A 13 pieces of 2 4 lumber 144 long bottom rafters.

If both walls are the same height you can either raise one by adding plates to it or you can build a frame for the wall separately and then install this on top of the wall. Think of a flattened hip roof. Pitch is the amount of angle or slope the roof has. C 30 pieces of 2 4 lumber 97 1 4 14 pieces 6 1 2 rafters.

Wood garage door framing sheathing and wood siding need to be 6 in. Concrete with a 4 000 psi mixture. Trim the angle to fit and screw the ridge rafter to the first truss and roof plates. This is denoted two ways a 1 3 or 1 4 pitch in fractions and a 6 12 pitch in inches which means the roof rises 6 inches for each 12 inches of run.

So if the pitch of your roof is 7 12 place one stair gauge on the vertical part of the framing square the tongue at the 7 inches 18 cm mark and place one stair gauge on the horizontal part of the framing square the body at the 12 inches 30 cm mark. From the final grade vinyl siding can be touching the ground and fiber cement can be within 2 in. Complete the tie in by installing a pair of rafters. This will give the framing square the angle you need to make the ridge cut.

Next measure for the ridge estimate the angle and cut it a little long. B 2 pieces of 2 4 lumber 36 1 4 1 piece of 2 6 lumber 260 top ridge. A slanted shed roof can easily be built if one of the walls of the shed stands taller than the opposite one. A flat roof has a slope of 1 8 per foot to 2 12.

In order to build a garage roof you need to use the following. If you build a flat roof try to have it slope in multiple directions to drains or gutters. The framing should be exactly 3 4 in.