Framing For A Hip Roof

Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.

Framing for a hip roof.

I prefer to run king commons off the end of the ridge and cut double cheek cuts on the hips as shown in the photo at left. There are a couple of ways to lay out a hip roof at the ridge. 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. With single cheek cuts or double cheek cuts.

Tommy silva gives the apprentices a lesson in hip roof framing. If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters.