Framing For A Hip Roof

There are a couple of ways to lay out a hip roof at the ridge.

Framing for a hip roof.

With single cheek cuts or double cheek cuts. Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing. Subscribe to this old house. Especially when we set 4 by or 6 by lvl hips using a forklift it is easier to drop the hip into a nice pocket.

This video explains in detail how to build a hip roof. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.