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Carpentry Roof Framing Vocab
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1. A shortened common rafter that spans from the wall plate to a hip rafter.
Hip jack rafter
Unit length
Gable roof
Minor span
2. A rafter that runs from the plate to the ridge of the main roof.
Seat cut
Supporting valley rafter
Rake
Slope
3. Part of a common rafter - shortened for framing a hip rafter - a valley rafter - or both.
Dormer
Intersecting roof
Valley cripple jack rafter
Jack rafter
4. 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.
Rafter tables
Line length
Cripple jack rafter
Ridgeboard
5. The width of the larger portion of a building.
Mansard roof
Major span
Jack rafter
Unit run
6. A cut on the extreme lower end of a rafter.
Tail cut
Total run
Plumb line
Total run
7. Horizontal framing pieces in a cornice - installed to provide fastening for the soffit.
Tail cut
Lookout
Line length
Purlin knee wall
8. Term used to indicate the steepness of a roof; stated as unit rise on unit run - e.g. - 6 on 12.
Dropping the hip
Jack rafter
Unit run
Slope
9. Studs that form the wall closing in the triangular area under a gable roof.
Hip roof
Plumb line
Gable end studs
Fascia
10. The underside trim members of a cornice or any such overhanging assembly.
Line length
Soffit
Total span
Seat cut
11. Temporary or permanent bracing that runs perpendicular to the braced members.
Gambrel roof
Bird's mouth
Unit run
Lateral bracing
12. A valley rafter that runs from the plate to the supporting valley rafter.
Pitch
Dormer
Lookout
Shortened valley rafter
13. The roof of irregular shaped buildings; valleys are formed at the intersection of the roofs.
Minor span
Intersecting roof
Valley rafter
Valley
14. The length of a rafter along a measuring line without consideration to the width or thickness of the rafter.
Line length
Lookout
Tail cut
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
15. A common rafter cut shorter that does not contact either a top plate or a ridge.
Gable end studs
Intersecting roof
Cripple jack rafter
Gables
16. A cut on the rafter that is a combination of a level cut and a plumb cut; also called the bird's mouth.
Seat cut
Unit rise
Unit rise
Rafter tables
17. Width of the smaller portion of a building with six or eight corners.
Minor span
Pitch
Unit rise
Hip rafter
18. A rafter running between two valley rafters.
Collar tie
Valley cripple jack rafter
Shortened valley rafter
Fascia
19. A horizontal distance of a stair tread or horizontal segment of the total run of a rafter.
Fascia
Total span
shed roof
Unit run
20. The sloping portion of the gable ends of a building.
Rake
Bird's mouth
Rafter tables
Hip roof
21. The width of the larger portion of a building.
Total rise
Hip jack rafter
Major span
Rake
22. The roof of irregular shaped buildings; valleys are formed at the intersection of the roofs.
Intersecting roof
Gable end
Valley
Ridgeboard
23. The length of a stair stringer or rafter per unit of run.
Ridgeboard
Total run
Unit length
Valley
24. The underside trim members of a cornice or any such overhanging assembly.
Hip roof
Backing the hip
Soffit
Lookout
25. The rafter placed at the intersection of two roof slopes in interior corners.
Fascia
Soffit
Valley rafter
Gable end studs
26. A type of roof that has two slopes of different pitches on each side of center.
Gambrel roof
Lookout
Slope
Major span
27. A type of roof that has two different pitches on all sides of the building - with the lower slopes steeper than the upper.
Mansard roof
Cripple jack rafter
Rafter tables
Gables
28. The intersection of two roof slopes at interior corners.
Cripple jack rafter
Valley
Supporting valley rafter
Valley cripple jack rafter
29. A rafter running between a valley rafter and the ridge.
Valley jack rafter
Level line
Dropping the hip
Valley
30. An inverted gable roof.
Fascia
Butterfly roof
Tail cut
Cripple jack rafter
31. The amount of slope to a roof expressed as ratio of the total rise to the span.
Pitch
Valley cripple jack rafter
Supporting valley rafter
Seat cut
32. Temporary or permanent bracing that runs perpendicular to the braced members.
Rake
Lateral bracing
Valley
Intersecting roof
33. A horizontal member placed close to the ridge at right angles to the plate.
Common rafter
Collar tie
Level line
Valley jack rafter
34. The triangular areas formed by the rake rafters and the wall plate at the ends of the building.
Cheek cut
Gables
Purlin knee wall
shed roof
35. A type of roof that pitches in two directions.
Collar tie
Dropping the hip
Major span
Gable roof
36. Part of a common rafter - shortened for framing a hip rafter - a valley rafter - or both.
Collar tie
Jack rafter
Valley
Cheek cut
37. Extends diagonally from the corner of the plate to the ridge at the intersection of two surfaces of a hip roof.
Hip rafter
Gable end
Lookout
Valley
38. Extends from the wall plate to the ridge board - where its run is perpendicular to the plate.
Common rafter
Total run
Rake rafter
Lateral bracing
39. An inverted gable roof.
Fascia
Valley cripple jack rafter
Butterfly roof
Valley rafter
40. A rafter running between a valley rafter and the ridge.
Valley
Mansard roof
Valley jack rafter
Seat cut
41. A compound miter cut on the end of certain roof rafters.
Butterfly roof
Purlin knee wall
Cheek cut
Gables
42. A rafter that runs from the plate to the ridge of the main roof.
Dropping the hip
Supporting valley rafter
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
Cheek cut
43. Beveling the top edge of a hip rafter to line it up with adjacent roof surfaces.
Gambrel roof
Backing the hip
Gable end studs
Valley rafter
44. Studs that form the wall closing in the triangular area under a gable roof.
shed roof
Jack rafter
Dormer
Gable end studs
45. A shortened common rafter that spans from the wall plate to a hip rafter.
Unit run
Dropping the hip
Dormer
Hip jack rafter
46. A horizontal distance of a stair tread or horizontal segment of the total run of a rafter.
Plumb line
Rake
Unit run
Gable end
47. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.
Bird's mouth
Cripple jack rafter
Gambrel roof
Total span
48. The sloping portion of the gable ends of a building.
Rake
Hip rafter
Lateral bracing
Dormer
49. The amount of slope to a roof expressed as ratio of the total rise to the span.
Soffit
Pitch
Valley rafter
Total rise
50. A vertical member of the cornice finish installed on the tail end of rafters.
Bird's mouth
Fascia
Jack rafter
Seat cut