Holiday cottages
How to design a side slot cutout for a rafter?
– make a vertical line at the end of the beam by positioning the angle bar correctly (for 1/4 roof slope the touchdown points will be 15, 30); 
– we measure back half the thickness of the rafters at right angles to the center line. …
Rafters of the roof surface at the edge rafters
The rafter length is the distance between the edge rafter and the cap beam.
This is clearly explained in the drawings.
The rafter spacing is the same as that of the main rafters: 40 cm or 60 cm. It means, that the course of the original rafter will be …
How to design an edge rafter?
Stage I . Marking the vertical cut and saddle cut for a roof with a slope of = 1/4 (14° or 25% or 0,25)
– you should find the height for each 30 cm length of the run of the edge rafter. Because for everyone …
Hip roof
The hipped roof is shown in the picture,
and the nomenclature of its elements in the drawing.
It has four edge rafters
and additional rafters on two additional roof surfaces.
Determination of the length of edge rafters
In a right triangle with a base and height 30 cm hypotenuse …
