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