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