Framing A Flat Roof Dormer

A stick framed roof with an attic has room for adding a dormer while a truss framed roof doesn t have any attic space to add a dormer to.

Framing a flat roof dormer.

Along the level line and using a square to draw a perpendicular line up to the roof edge of the board. Shed gable hip gambrel and mansard. Make a rafter cutting jig by measuring 12 in. Roof framing is one of those carpenter skills that appears quite complicated and indeed some roof designs are difficult.

Schedule your project considering that the roof will be wide open and the work may last an entire day. Roofs are basically five types. If you have decided to build a shed dormer on your house to allow for extra light or extra headspace shed dormers are easier to build than gable dormers. Purchase your materials including wood windows and any other specialty.

A rafter whose upper end rests atop an existing roof without cutting into it providing a roof and ceiling for a dormer or building space with greater head room than beneath the main roof. Create a layout that incorporates the details of the project such as slope headroom and exterior appearance. Whoa there are many fresh collection of roof dormer plans. If the slope of your dormer roof is the same as your old roof hold a scrap of plywood against the old roof boards and draw a level line on it.

Definition of dormer rafter. Except for this feature though they span the full range of dormer styles from arched top to shed roof to hip roof. This video shows the process of building a flat dormer roof with 9x2 timbers for the rafters and then firring strips on top to provide the slope. Wall dormers are found in houses of many styles including gothic revival romanesque and mission.

Navigate your pointer and click the picture to see. A gabled dormer on the other hand is not flat but gabled which refers to two sides coming together to form a peak. Shed dormers have a flat pitched roof set at a complementary angle to the existing roofline. Recently completed in march 2016 this project wasn t quite as straight froward as it may look in the video.

The construction of the dormer involved three st. Another common design in the northeast is the saltbox which is a gable roof with one longer side. Wall dormers aren t surrounded by roof as most dormers are. We have several great portrait to give you imagination we can say these thing best photos.

It depends on the type of your roof frame. You can still add a purely decorative make believe dormer to a truss framed roof but not a real dormer. After the firrings are secured in place we lay.