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






3. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






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






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






32. A rafter that runs from the plate to the ridge of the main roof.






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






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






35. An inverted gable roof.






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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

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






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






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






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






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






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






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