Open Ceiling Hip Roof Framing

A truly open or cathedral ceiling provides a clear unobstructed view to the underside of the roof s rafters.

Open ceiling hip roof framing. Think of a flattened 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. A disadvantage of the hip roof is that it is more difficult to construct than a gable roof. It is the strongest type of roof because it is braced by four hip rafters.

The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof. If you build a square hip roof you can do it without ceiling joists. Intersecting the intersecting roof consists of a. Vaulted ceiling framing solutions must open up the space under the rafters while still providing adequate support for the roof s weight load.

These hip rafters run at a 45 angle from each corner of the building to the ridge. Stately attractive and open. The thrust to worry about is at the tails of the common rafters. A flat roof has a slope of 1 8 per foot to 2 12.

The exposed beam ceiling look is one that many owners of conventional flat ceilings desperately want. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. First head to the attic. If you build a flat roof try to have it slope in multiple directions to drains or gutters.

The sheathing top plates hold the corners together. Desperately enough in fact to consider making the major step of pulling down ceiling drywall to expose joists above. You ll have to remove the entire roof structure to vault the ceilings. How to vault a ceiling.

If you see a complicated framework of 2x4s held together with perforated metal plates your roof is framed with trusses. Hip the hip roof has four sloping sides. In pitched roof systems such as hip roofs and gable end roofs collar ties and ceiling joists span across the ceiling space and obstruct the view. It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features.