Fram A Roof On The Ground

Given the risks involved with wrestling with heavy materials in high winds far above solid ground i d rather pass.

Fram a roof on the ground.

Then it occurred to me that my crew and i could eliminate the danger and discomfort of framing and shingling a roof by doing everything on the ground. Each subsequent truss can then be hoisted into place installed and braced. Start by marking the plumb line the horizontal line that marks where the wall will meet the rafter. Frame roof on ground although they are close to the ground framing porch roofs on the ground is super convenient because you can do all the beam work too.

Don t shy away from lifting up packages of 8 trusses at a time 16 material to brace them together. Simple cottage hip or gable roof would be faster to just frame in place. While you re at it some carpenters. This kind of multi tasking shortens the entire build cycle as the mostly completed roof is set in place as soon as the walls are ready to receive it.

Another way to stage it on the ground if your not going to frame anything in just preassemble packages is to take some joists and build a rim board floor to set them on. And they are really easy to set at least in the situations i ve experienced. Once the ground assembled roof component system is installed install ground bracing to the first truss in the system as outlined in b1. I was more than a little excited by the idea.

This assembly can be used as an anchorage point for installing conventional fall protection. Building on the ground allows us to have a team working on the roof right from the beginning of the project rather than only starting the roof once the foundation and walls are completed.