You talk about it being complicated and it would be from most carpenters I've met but when you explain it you do such a good job and explain it so well and calmly that it soaks very nicely into the brain! Good job my new friend! Subbed! I'll have to tell folks about you!
good work,,,,, in the UK , we measure down , to set the seat cut ( you measured up 1.5 inches ), so all the top edges are in line , ready for roofing baton, our timber can vary in thickness up to 6mm
Great video!! Definitely complicated but everything seems that way when you first see it. Once you know it, it's second nature. I've found sometimes it's harder to explain things to new people in my trade that I do without thinking. Well done.
Classic Work hi mate.been watching your videos really helpful.wanted to know I'm building a shed but the roof is only half meter rise. is that enough for a hip roof. building is 24ft length by 10ft width.
Nice but at 5:30 a 45 cut won’t measure 45 seen at the top. That’s why it looked asymmetrical. Rafter tables often give the corrected value, for example line 6 on a rafter table on a steel square (close to 12=45 degrees for low pitch roofs)
I am a Land Surveyor, I calculate angles routinely. So I was wondering what is 6 & 17, figured that out, 6:12 is 17° on a 45° valley rafter. A perpendicular rafter at 6:12 pitch is cut at 26°33'54" (ha ha not really, about 26-1/2° is close enough). Carpentry is mind bending, really enjoy doing it as an amateur.
Did you use a bandsaw to make the cuts? Don't curcular saws leave saw marks on birds mouths because you have to cut further into the stock to get it to cut through enough? Hope that makes sense.
my valley rafter sits on a concrete block wall not a 2x4 wall with plate on top. My drawings show two plates on top of the block to sit my valley on. In regards to the seat cut at the end of the valley rafter, do i need to measure up 3" on the center line and not 1.5" since i have two plates to sit on top of the wall? i do not need the double cheek cut on the bottom just the seat cut to sit on the wall. Thanks!
No 1.5 would be plenty. Really any number would work 3/4" 1" 1-1/4" all a birds mouth does is keeps the rafter from siding off the top plate. Good question though.
It’s meant to fit nicely on your wall plate. So 2x4 wall that length on your flat cut that sits on the wall should be 3 1/2 inches. That sets the height because if you went higher it would get bigger, and if you went lower that flat part would get shorter
90 degree,angle, 45 pitch, 45 seat cut, 45 plumb cut , = 90 degree's, 25 pitch degree, 25seat cut 65 plumb cut=90 you can use your speed square to find the degree of the roof with a plumb line, or you can download the angle finder on your phone
What do you mean 6+17 on the speed square at around 3:52. My speed square on the hip-val part only says 6, the 17 mark is the other end? If that makes any sense. Cheers bud.
+ryyggin The square has two lines of numbers on it in the pitch bar. One is the common bar (0/12) the other is hip-val bar (0-17) The 6-17 is just what I said the pitch is rise over run. Hope that makes sense let me know if it helps.
+yep Sure I'm 25. Haha different is right I don't think I know how to stay in one place. I know I look like I just work all the time, but I'm also a big gamer, and play 4 different instruments. Aye I may look young, and fell off the turnip truck, but it wasn't yesterday LOL. Thanks for the comment.
Brock Cameron This confused me at first also because he says mark it at 6in17. In his preceding video he explained that common rafters used at Xand12 scale and hip&valley rafters used a Xand17 scale. Like 6in12 and 6in17. I looked at a square and sure enough the 17 mark in the hip&valley lined up perfect with the 12 mark in the common and both line up with the 45 degree mark. To me this confirms what he said was correct. Hip&valley 17in17 is 45 degrees and common 12in12 is 45 degrees.
He prob used a miter saw! Shit aint like that at no job site!! Two studs, what ever angle you have, its gonna be two on each side. Shit your done!! O... Nail' em. Same thing. Quick and structural framing is what cha what white boi. Your last check is in the mail!
