How to do Hip Rafters 

Hi Declan, thank you for your message mate, it makes it all worth while when another member of our industry like you gives me a boost through a comment like yours, it is difficult trying to capture footage and also get the work done but do want to share my knowledge to as many people as I can especially the next generation of trades people!! Have a good weekend Declan

Well your certainly doing that Robin, thank you for what you do and who you are, I have learnt from and adopted many of the things you have to taught us into my daily work life as an "all rounder", so thank you again and keep going, your completing your new goles in life 💪👊

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you Stevie!!!

Many thanks!

Many thanks!

My pleasure!

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you! 😃

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much!

Thank you kindly

Thank you so much 😀

Glad you enjoy it!

@@ukconstruction It’s brilliant Robin. 👏🏼

Same

Reading this comment makes me want to wire a house.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wow, thanks!

@@ukconstruction you’re very welcome 👍

Thank you! Cheers!

don't use traitor units over here.

Thank you very much!

What’s the name of this book please

Never heard of anyone doing a rafter camber down! I’m 52 now and been a site chippy since day I left school. Please share name of the book🤔

Never heard of crown down on anything! I have seen old buildings that look how you’re describing but I believe that is due to small timbers and being re roofed with a heavier covering!

When i find it i will post it, as for heavier coverings it would have to be a serious weight to change the camber dont you think? And timber gets harder over time not softer, and if you look at old slate roofs, the tiles are always super tight and on new roofs you always see gaps(front to back) im a second generation joiner with twenty years in the game, robin is the best British carpenter on RU-vid by far, but not everything he says is perfect, and alot of good knowledge has been lost in this due to shit apprentice schemes, also if you look at Japanese roofs they are all concave , not just to look pretty, because the tiles sit tight! There are also a few structual reasons also but its hard to explain with out drawing it out , sorry about the if it seems like a rant but im passionate about my trade!

I can’t find the really old book I saw it in, but I have found Small reference to this in W E Grey, The carpenters metric roofing ready reckoner, page 49

Yes, but I will do a video about how to simply work out the angle for a unequal hipped roof in the coming months

@@ukconstruction I would be very interested in that video, in the area in the Netherlands i work in its common that the pitches are different

Watch the one before this one

Check my video before this where I talk about the position and making of the plates for a hipped roof, from this you can work out the ridge length along the wall plates

@@ukconstruction cheers Robin, I’ll rewatch it, thought I must have missed something!

​@@samgreig6947measure length of building & take away the width plus thickness of rafter gives you ridge length , as long as it's a 45° hip

Not sure yet

diamond back

will do

@@ukconstruction thank you - will be interesting to see your method.

Watch it again.

Did you watch all the video???

looking forward to your video.... will we be waiting for very long?

Check my next video of setting out and fixing jacks!!! I do both direct and calculation for the jacks depends on the size of the roof!!!

@@ukconstruction yeah I was the ‘diminishing’ thing he was chasing with me, but that was 23 yrs ago! 😂 haven’t needed it yet 🤷