Nick you're so kind brother to share your experiences and knowledge to a man like me who's eager to learn roof cutting & stacking. I can't thank you enough. You're greatly appreciated !
a roof cutters secrets fell into my lap 18 years ago. it taught me how to think in triangles and changed the trajectory of my career.I have given out many copies to aspiring framers over the years. many thanks for the videos.
Nice!! Thanks for reaching out. When I was illustrating it I would bring Will a big stack of drawings and he would rifle through them and give me back most of them and take some of them. He would say those need to be fixed. I think I drew each one a couple of times before they were technically accurate. Little known fact: Larry Hahn was one of the editors and I edited right after him. The manuscript was covered with his red markings. Very cool.
Super excited today I received a copy of your and Wills book and now a new video. It’s going to be cool to fallow your videos and have your book by my side. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Andrew Underhill - Hey Andrew, good to hear from you. Thank you for the vote of confidence. I’ve been doing more and more roof classes and shooting videos from the models. I can’t remember where you are but you are always invited. I am not on FB anymore because I have too many things I want to focus on and I seemed to spend too much time on it. I can’t remember where you live but you’re always invited to these roof classes. They last eight hours long and we build a big model. My email is nmridgeconstruction @yahoo.com
Greatly appreciate your videos and willingness to share your knowledge. I struggle with the math with these complicated roofs. Any suggestions on what books I should be reading?
Joseph Grasso Nick Illustrated,contributed and edited (A roof cutters secrets to framing a custom home by Will Holliday) been thumbing through it for three hours.I got the 3rd edition . Full of everything and more Nick explains in his videos. If your looking for a book. This is the one you’ll want to get. Been reading Roof framing by Marshall Gross for months. Nick and Wills way seems to be easier to follow. Many ways to skin a cat, just need to find a way that works for you.
michael kearney Find the quotient of Rise/Run and punch 1/x then tangent on your calculator. Remember that the hip is an elongated common rafter so the run is greater but the rise is the same. On a standard hip the run is 1.414 that of the common rafter. On bastards it varies.
Roof Cutting and Stacking Thanks for the reply that’s great. Would your book be of use to me I have only done standard hip and gable roofs so far and am looking for something to get me the next step most books I have got are either to basic or to advanced Thanks mick
michael kearney Yes. A Roof Cutters Secrets is written as a guide to whatever roof you happen to be doing at the time. It’s great because you can ignore sections until you need them. I’m only the Illustrator, editor and contributor. It was was written by Will Holladay.
Roof Cutting and Stacking Thanks again for the reply I will pick it up. Converting from imperial to metric is a problem but you can’t get a good metric book an average roof here is 35deg = 8 3/8, 12
Hi how do u work out the position of your first common rafters with the 2 different pitches or is it the same as a equal pitch hip roof and is half the span thanks
Yes, the commons are achieved the same way as a equal pitch roof. But the low pitch Jack rafters have a she cut that’s more than 45° in the high pitch Jack rafters have a cheat cut that is less than 45°. The calculation of the Jack rafters is different than an equal pitch roof. We use the same divisors (The rise is divided by each other) multiplied by the plate line runs to get the jack lengths.
@@roofcuttingandstacking7925 so just to understand if you had a span of 12feet and 10 inches and 2 different pitches at 40° and a 50° would you still measure off the corner half of the span which is 6feet and 5 inches and set you first commons there or would they be set further back or closer to accommodate the stepper and shallower pitches
