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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.






2. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






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






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






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.






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






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






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






9. An inverted gable roof.






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






11. A rafter running between two valley rafters.






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






13. The total horizontal distance over which a rafter slopes.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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






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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. A common rafter cut shorter that does not contact either a top plate or a ridge.






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






38. The total horizontal distance over which a rafter slopes.






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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






46. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.






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






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






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






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