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Carpentry Roof Framing Vocab

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






2. The amount a stair or rafter rises per unit of run.






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






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






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






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






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






8. The triangular-shaped section on the end of a building formed by the rafters in a common or gable roof and the top plate line.






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






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






11. An inverted gable roof.






12. The amount a stair or rafter rises per unit of run.






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






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






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






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






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






18. Term used to indicate the steepness of a roof; stated as unit rise on unit run - e.g. - 6 on 12.






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






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






21. The triangular areas formed by the rake rafters and the wall plate at the ends of the building.






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






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






24. A compound miter cut on the end of certain roof rafters.






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






26. A type of roof that slopes in one direction only.






27. 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.






28. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






29. The total horizontal distance over which a rafter slopes.






30. A type of roof that has two slopes of different pitches on each side of center.






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






37. The triangular areas formed by the rake rafters and the wall plate at the ends of the building.






38. The length of a rafter along a measuring line without consideration to the width or thickness of the rafter.






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






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






41. A notch cut in the underside of a rafter to fit on top of the wall plate.

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






43. A type of roof that has two slopes of different pitches on each side of center.






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






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






46. Extends diagonally from the corner of the plate to the ridge at the intersection of two surfaces of a hip roof.






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






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






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






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






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