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Carpentry Roof Framing Vocab

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






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






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






4. The length of a stair stringer or rafter per unit of run.






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






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






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






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






9. A vertical member of the cornice finish installed on the tail end of rafters.






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. The length of a stair stringer or rafter per unit of run.






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






29. An inverted gable roof.






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






31. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






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






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






34. A rafter running between a valley rafter and the ridge.






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






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






37. A rafter running between a valley rafter and the ridge.






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






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






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






41. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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