Nail the plywood sheathing to.
Framing porch hip roof.
Rick arnold frequent contributor to fine homebuilding and the journal of light construction presenter at jlc live the katz roadshow the remodeling show.
To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length.
For that reason we can use the same common rafters all the way around it.
Determine the number of plywood sheets you ll need.
Depending on the size of the roof most hip.
Begin by measuring the width and height of each of the 4 sides of.
It s because all the sides of the roof will slope downward to your house walls.
Finishing the hip roof 1.
Nail the jack rafters to the hip rafters and secure them to the walls.
We ll assume the new length of the roof below is 3 4 metres.