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Carpentry Roof Framing Vocab

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






2. The width of the larger portion of a building.






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






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






5. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






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






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






13. The width of the larger portion of a building.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. An inverted gable roof.






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






32. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. An inverted gable roof.






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. The rafter placed at the intersection of two roof slopes in interior corners.