  
Who can you turn to when you need to learn how to frame a roof?
Author Will Holladay gives you his insider tips and techniques gleaned over decades of cutting roofs.
New time and effort saving tricks plus all the roof framing information you might expect from a book based on decades of roof cutting experience.
A Roof Cutter's Secrets To Framing the Custom Home gives you insider secrets such as:
- Gang-cutting techniques for fast production of hips and valleys
- Efficient techniques for post-and-beam roofs and exposed-beam ceilings
- Jobsite solutions for rake walls and curved and two-story walls.
A Roof Cutter's Secrets includes valuable step-by-step techniques for cutting bay roofs, gambrels, shed, gable and eyebrow dormers. You'll even see how to cut uneven pitch gables.
Custom Work: This book shows you how to do custom work like coffered ceilings, arches and barrel vaults; even round towers, hexagons, octagons, and other polygons.
If you've been looking for a book that covers all roof framing with some new tricks you may not have tried before. Save time and money with this roof framing powerhouse.
About The Author
Like many in the trades, Will Holladay began his framing career as a job-site laborer with a shovel in his hands. Blessed with a knack for driving nails (he still uses his old 28-oz. hammer) coupled with a love of roofs and the desire to be a roof cutter, he worked his way through the ranks. Will eventually realized his dream when he learned production roof cutting/stacking in the Southern California housing tracts in the mid 1970s. When trusses gained prominence in the late 1970s, he moved north into the custom home market along the central California coast. There he specialized in framing large custom homes for various general contractors. Will eventually moved on to work up and down the West Coast and in New England. The custom home market greatly refined his knowledge as he was exposed to a variety of difficult roof situations. The notes he kept throughout the years have become the basis for this book.
Table of Contents
Abbreviation Legend, x
Rafter Parts, 1
- Horizontal standards, 1
- LL/RR method, 3
Chapter 1 Figuring and Framing 7
- Snap, 7
- Plate, 10
- Scratch, 11
- Figuring tall walls, 14
- Framing straight walls, 15
- Figuring rake walls, 19
- Framing rake walls, 23
- Raising walls, 25
- Underpinning for hillside lots, 28
Chapter 2 Plumb, Line, and Joist, 31
- Plumb and line, 31
- Ceiling joists, 35
- Floor joists, 41
Chapter 3 Gable Roofs/Production Roof Cutting, 47
- Racks for gang-cutting rafters, 47
- Common rafters to a ridge board, 49
- The history and tools of production roof cutting, 54
- Common rafters lapping over a center ridge beam, 59
- Gable studs, 59
Chapter 4 Regular Hip Roofs, 63
- Hip roof ridge lengths, 63
- The hip rafter, 63
- Backing a hip, 67
- Hip jacks, 68
- Hip-valley jacks, 73
- Hip (or valley) head-cuts for rafters that sit on a ridge beam, 75
- Broken hips, 79
- Snub-nose hips, 81
- Dutch hips, 82
- Hips from a 450 corner wall, 84
Chapter 5 Regular Valley Intersections, 87
- The valley rafter, 87
- Regular valley jacks, 89
- California valley sleepers, 93
- California valley jacks, 97
- Over/under intersections, 98
- Offset valleys, 100
- Supported valley situations, 100
Chapter 6 Roof Stacking, 109
- Stacking a gable roof, 109
- Collar ties, 116
- Flurtins, 118
- Pailless rafters, 119
- Ridge height, 120
- Stacking a simple hip roof, 120
- Stacking a valley, 122
- Stacking a complex hip roof, 124
Chapter 7 Eaves and Plywood, 129
- Fascia methods, 129
- Outriggers and barge fascia, 133
- Fake valley tails, 134
- Miscellaneous fascia techniques, 134
- Roof sheathing, 137
- Rigid insulation, 142
- Beam tails, 143
- Swaled tails around a corner, 144
Chapter 8 Bastard Hips and Valleys, 149
- Dog-leg bastard hips/valleys, 151
- Dog-leg bastard broken hips, 154
- Dovetail hips, 158
- A diamond hip roof, 162
- Diamond roof hip jacks, 167
- The unequal-pitch relationship, 170
- An unequal-pitch hip roof with equal-length overhangs, 172
- Unequal-pitch valleys, 177
- Off-angle California jacks, 183
- Backing bastard rafters, 183
Chapter 9 Dormers, 189
- Gable and hip dormers, 189
- Shed dormers, 193
- Shed dormer California-cuts, 194
- Eyebrow dormers, 194
Chapter 10 Towers and Polygons, 205
- Hexagons, 205
- Octagons, 208
- Other polygons, 211
- Conical tower construction, 216
- California valley at a tower, 227
Chapter 11 Bay Roofs, 231
- Common bay roofs, 231
- Bay window roofs against a wall, 237
Chapter 12 Other Miscellaneous Roofs, 241
- Equal-pitch roofs from varying plate heights, 241
- Matching ridge heights, 241
- Parallel-roof California-cuts, 242
- Unequal-pitch gables, 246
- Cantilever eaves, 247
- Common rafters across an angled wall, 248
- Swiss chalet-style roofs, 251
- Gambrel roofs, 253
- Site-made trusses, 255
Chapter 13 Beam Work, 257
- Miscellaneous beam work, 257
- Exposed trusses, 265
Chapter 14 Stairs, 269
- Cut stringers, 269
- Exposed stringers, 273
- Pyramid stairs, 273
- 90 degree winders, 274
- Circular stairs, 277
- Circular-stair handrail cap, 278
- Contoured stairs, 281
Chapter 15 Pick Up, 283
- Miscellaneous pick up, 283
- Arches and curves, 285
- Chandelier domes, 287
- Skylights, 291
- Coffer ceilings, 291
- Pop-out bays, 295
Appendix A Reference Charts, 297
- Chart 1 Decimal Equivalents, 298
- Chart 2 Rafter Line-Length (LL) Ratios, 298
- Chart 3 Roof-Pitch/Degrees, 299
- Chart 4 Roof-Rise (RR) Ratios, 299
- Chart 5 Trigonometric Values, 300
- Chart 6 Regular Hip/Valley Backing Angles, 302
- Chart 7 Side- and Bevel-Cuts on the Hip/Valley
- Rafter Tail with Square-Hung Fascia, 303
- Chart 8 Regular California Valley Sleeper Head/Tail-Cuts, 304
Appendix B Applying the Construction Master Calculator, 305
Appendix C Tool Resources, 325
List of Figures and Photos, 327
Index, 331
Includes: Book
By: Will Holladay
Published by: Craftsman Book Company
ISBN: 1928580327
342 Pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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