LittleHouse – Framing the Roof
LittleHouse – Framing the Roof by admin on May.24, 2007, under Framing Roof 22 May, 2007. Well, here we are for another week at the ranch. This trip we intend to build the roof. We have built two temporary supports for the ridge beam, and started to cut and install the rafters on the East end. Ridge Beam Placing Rafters 22 May 2007. The roof was the most difficult part to build, so far. I expected the rafters to be difficult, but they actually wern’t too bad. The hardest part was keeping the ridge beam straight. By altering which side we put the 1st ridge beam of a pair up, we were able to keep it pretty straight. We still had some problems with crooked lumber, though. Ridge Beam Jigs Rafters to Ridge 22 May 2007. We made the ridge board stick out to provide support for the overhang on the east and west gable ends. So that we could start a sheet of plywood on one end, we installed an extra rafter pair 24″ from where the edge of the overhang will be. T