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Carpentry Roof Framing Vocab

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






2. A type of roof that has two different pitches on all sides of the building - with the lower slopes steeper than the upper.






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. The first and last rafter of a gable roof - usually having a finish or trim applied to it; also called barge or fly rafter.






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






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






11. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






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






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






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






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






16. A notch cut in the underside of a rafter to fit on top of the wall plate.


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. The length of a rafter along a measuring line without consideration to the width or thickness of the rafter.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






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






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






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






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






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






44. An inverted gable roof.






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






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






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






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






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






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