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Carpentry Roof Framing Vocab

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1. An inverted gable roof.






2. A horizontal distance of a stair tread or horizontal segment of the total run of a rafter.






3. Temporary or permanent bracing that runs perpendicular to the braced members.






4. A short rafter running parallel to common rafters - cut between hip and valley rafters.






5. The vertical distance that the roof rises from plate to ridge.






6. A common rafter cut shorter that does not contact either a top plate or a ridge.






7. A common rafter cut shorter that does not contact either a top plate or a ridge.






8. A shortened common rafter that spans from the wall plate to a hip rafter.






9. A structure that projects out from a sloping roof to form another roofed area to provide a surface for the installation of windows.






10. The roof of irregular shaped buildings; valleys are formed at the intersection of the roofs.






11. The underside trim members of a cornice or any such overhanging assembly.






12. A horizontal member of a roof frame that is placed on edge at the ridge and into which the upper ends of rafters are fastened.






13. The vertical distance that the roof rises from plate to ridge.






14. The rafter placed at the intersection of two roof slopes in interior corners.






15. Any line on the rafter that is horizontal when the rafter is in position.






16. Information found printed on the body of a framing square; used to calculate the lengths of various components of a roof system.






17. The rafter placed at the intersection of two roof slopes in interior corners.






18. Supporting timbers at which rafters may intersect each other in a gambrel roof.






19. A cut on the rafter that is a combination of a level cut and a plumb cut; also called the bird's mouth.






20. Increasing the depth of the hip rafter seat cut so that the centerline of its top edge will lie in the plane of adjacent roof surfaces.






21. Beveling the top edge of a hip rafter to line it up with adjacent roof surfaces.






22. A type of roof that has two different pitches on all sides of the building - with the lower slopes steeper than the upper.






23. A structure that projects out from a sloping roof to form another roofed area to provide a surface for the installation of windows.






24. Any line on the rafter that is vertical when the rafter is in position.






25. A cut on the extreme lower end of a rafter.






26. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






27. Any line on the rafter that is vertical when the rafter is in position.






28. Part of a common rafter - shortened for framing a hip rafter - a valley rafter - or both.






29. The sloping portion of the gable ends of a building.






30. Part of a common rafter - shortened for framing a hip rafter - a valley rafter - or both.






31. A valley rafter that runs from the plate to the supporting valley rafter.






32. The underside trim members of a cornice or any such overhanging assembly.






33. Studs that form the wall closing in the triangular area under a gable roof.






34. A horizontal member placed close to the ridge at right angles to the plate.






35. Width of the smaller portion of a building with six or eight corners.






36. The amount of slope to a roof expressed as ratio of the total rise to the span.






37. A roof that slopes upward toward the ridge from four directions.






38. An inverted gable roof.






39. Any line on the rafter that is horizontal when the rafter is in position.






40. Extends from the wall plate to the ridge board - where its run is perpendicular to the plate.






41. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






42. Width of the smaller portion of a building with six or eight corners.






43. A horizontal member placed close to the ridge at right angles to the plate.






44. A roof that slopes upward toward the ridge from four directions.






45. Horizontal framing pieces in a cornice - installed to provide fastening for the soffit.






46. A rafter that runs from the plate to the ridge of the main roof.






47. The intersection of two roof slopes at interior corners.






48. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






49. A type of roof that pitches in two directions.






50. A cut on the extreme lower end of a rafter.