Roofus, Roof Construction Made Simple - KB#6 

Fair play to the young guy for digging that hole by himself, not find many young ones nowadays to eager to do that. 👍 from me.

15:10 the lad jumping into the hole lol

I’ve had mine for a bit over a month now, I’ll never thought it would make such a difference, It just saves time, compared to everything else yes it does the same job, but it’s the ease of use once you learn how to use it...

Great watching these two at work

Clever , back in the day l had a book that showed all the angles/ lengths then of course all the bevels/squares that's required and looking at yourself in are great weather less tools going rusty the better , nice bit of kit that.

thanks for the demonstration of the Roofus Square

Re inventing the wheel , its neat but i bought my stanley speed square with adjustable fence 20 years ago, and thats chunky enough to guide my circular saw and withstand being dropped.

Just got mine yesterday. I really like it. Although I will still be using my 250 mm stanley speed square.

Great job lads!

robin clevett already has one built into his brain.

Great video Im glad I found it many thanks👍

Well done lads!! I enjoyed watching that roof going up 👍

Have one myself and found it quite good however it’s worth checking regularly when cutting rafters as the bevel is prone to moving slightly

Great vid, thanks 👍

Hello Roger This is my from Amsterdam Holland Great video This Is What I Mean Less Talk More Play great Learning video thanks

Thats a great piece of kit ,need to get myself one of those , roof looks tidy as well

Subaru Impreza @ 3:38 😜 Did the rafters on my extension roof in the summer of 2018. It was so hot it was frying my brain as id never built a roof before, but I got there and all 3 velux windows went in perfectly! I used a £15 dewalt speed square.

Ordered one, let’s see if it quicker. Nice video

The concept is excellent and would save a lot of time. The problem I see with the tool is the shortness of the stock against the timber. No timber is straight and any curve or bump is going to throw your angle off. At least with a traditional square you're ironing most of that problem out.

Is that lad digging to Australia to get another 1

Great videos-you explain so clearly.Thanks.Can you show how you notch the rafters against the ridge board?

Handy tool although a carpenters sq with lugs or a fence does the job perfectly..proper pencil as well... The inventor is a clever fellow.. Good luck to him..

Great video. The best thing about this roofing square is going to be watching other chippies faces trying to figure out what it is 😎

Stay safe guys

The lever used for locking obviously works on a cam. This may wear and slip with use, so compared with the speed square which has no moving parts, I think I'd keep the latter.

Tell Ian he can buy his big brother one of them squares 😂

Thoroughly enjoyed that chaps , great seeing the roof come together and that gadget is superb 👌🏼! You didn’t show your final bit of blockwork , did you get soaked 🙄? 🧱👍🏼

jimmy in tthe background, love the paslode, my general contractor boss used to say not on the money, or spot on, but dead nuts

I’m all for new kit but for me a Traditional roofing square and a speed square as back up. Done. I’m also not getting this marking diagonally across a timber member. Everything in roofing is marked to and from and parallel pitch line. I get that it is not bench joinery, it’s certainly not a technique or method I use or teach to people.

Great little square, but I can't help but think it has only been invented because Stanley don't make their 12" adjustabe square any more. (one if which I fortunately have). I think TF tools make one now though. Thanks for the vid.

What will Robin make of this????? That’s a video right there! On a separate issue, hope everyone is safe and well through this current situation. One day we should have a skill builder road show 👍🏼

What's skill builders thoughts on what the trade should doing during the lockdown, I'm torn about what's best???

Stanley speed square all the way!!! The weird thing is they don't sell the big ones anymore unless you want to buy one for £200 on eBay. If I lost mine I would be devastated!

I had this sent to me in its earlier stages at crowd funding. Got the professional version which is just better quality. Dialogued with inventor for about a year. So in some place to comment with a degree of experience. 30 year a chippy so he I go. Simply put its a cracking tool and well worth the money. Stanley used to sell a 10 inch version of their smaller quick square that you can’t get anymore. It has a much simpler adjustable arm imo. If you just put a pencil mark on it to show your height above plate mark then rub of when done it essentially does the same thing. The tft model does have increments for 1/3 depth. It doesn’t have vials on it but nothing that can’t be sorted. Just take a small boat square up draw horizontal line on rafter and job done. But you can buy a better version of the old Stanley 10 inch from a company called Timber frame Tools or tft. In my opinion it’s a matter of styles I prefer the big square with an adjustable arm to the more fiddly roofus. On the big square you don’t turn it over to find hip cuts you just move arm normally less than inch SIMPLES. It’s just my opinion but there was some inaccuracies in the description of use in this video. If you persevere with the roofus you will master it but it could be more confusing to an apprentice.

I want one and I'm not a carpenter!

I have been cutting roofs for 30 years this square and bevels are useless if you drop them or bang them they move, stick to a roofing square or speed square.

Make yourself some trestles mate. Back saver

And it's in skill builder colours

Speed square works fine for framing ,I moved to the states 22 years ago from Ireland and had to re learn a lot of carpentry to some degree because over here we'll frame the whole house with lumber.Speed square does everything that thing does and for all the non trades people watching building channels on RU-vid, there are absolutely standards and tolerances when you're framing but at the same time we're not building pianos, it kind of reminds me of when you see guys turn up on jobs with stiletto brand hammers ( $200 hammer ) it doesn't do anything a $30 estwing hammer won't do.not trying to slag the guy off at all but there's a lot of moving parts and screws on that thing and I don't know how true that would still be after 5 or 6 years on a construction site.

Hey Youngin, ye wanna use this Roofus to lay out birdsmouths and workout the compound mitre cuts.... Or go over there and dig a hole.

Finding a pitch is piss easy - without the dufus. Mark a few plumb lines on a few different rafters and average it with sliding bevel. There are easier ways than using this rufus dufus but it does look a very handy tool.

I make a template, birdsmouth in the middle, plum at one end and hip on the other. My little blue book gives me diminish.

Looks like a good bit of kit .what does the roof whisperer (robin) think about it?

Only thing I dont like about it is it seem you mark from the underside of the rafter. Any good carpenter knows you set out you backing from the top of rafter as timber sizes can vary. Wonder if it can be used the correct way up?

Why mark each rafter rather than gang-cutting them?

i cut roofs day in day out and there isn't a hope i would change my 12 inch stanley quick square of corded saw.

remember at college drawing this out on an 8×4 sheet?

Does it give you edge cuts for jacks and purlins?

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Can anyone let me know how they have cut and fixed those rafters onto the ledger plate where the hip buts in?

James just clamp the roofing square to the wood at the angle you want and it won't move during the cut

Does it not matter much that you're over half way through the 6*2 on the hip seat cut?

Would be interesting to see what Robin thinks of this bit of kit

And is he using my 1st fix paslode nail gun!!!

Nifty tool but accidentally drop it from the top of a scaffold then see how good it is. Good if you’ve a nice bench set up on the ground floor. Good video though. Thanks.

You cant beat the Stanley quick square

Its a genius tool looks like you need to be a genius to understand it or a joiner.

15:09 he just vanished into the hole 😂 was he trying to escape the site?

The timber fixed to the wall is a ledger

10 inch Stanley adjustable all day long it's far easier to use and it's not fiddly like that 1

I doubt this tool compares to the build quality of the essential carpenter roof tool (which really will last a lifetime).

Other than the vial levels, it's pretty much just like my squangle.

Speed squares are a fixed item impossible to lose calibration exactly the same 30 years down the line plus you only have to flip it over opposed to turning dials double checking and after marking your first rafter providing every one is the same it’s only the once you use the tool as the 1st should become your template

Wonder will they reinvent the tape as well

Do you think he likes the roofus???

that tool seems ok. I prefer the old ways. And my god MAN, get a corded makita hypoid saw. your welcome.

Dude I wanted to buy it and its not for sale..... Come on man.....

Nice tool but expensive 😣

This is by no means a new idea at all, by far the best roofing tool for cutting a roof is the Metric Roofmaster square, Blundell Harling used to produce it, but now the only place it can be found is from a company called Kingsview Optical. The only information you need to cut all aspects (rafters, hips/valley, jacks, purlins, layboards etc) is the pitch of the roof. The tool consists of 45 degree set square with a sliding arm, on the side are printed the degrees for commons, hips etc, and table giving run and rise per meter, once you have set the pitch you just read the numbers to give calculations for rafter, hip, jacks lengths etc, you then use the square set to the correct pitch to mark all your plumb and seat cuts, much the same as Robin does with the roofing square, absolutely amazing bit of kit, Every bit of information needed for cutting a roof is all there on the square, I urge all chippies to have a look, It's worth its weight in gold...

Get this poor guy some gloves :)

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Looks like it fairly p!$$ed it down after you bedded that wall plate. Months of torrential rain and now its fined up "corona lock down". Oh to be a self employed builder

Hi there, yet another brilliant video on carpentry, but I couldn't help seeing that you are setting that roof far too high under the window!, see 8 minutes 50 onwards, not an uncommon mistake, one which I had to try to deal with many times during my career as a roofer!. The root of the problem relates to the installation of the cover flashing under the window, the flashing has to be fitted into the joint in the brickwork below the cill, the gap just under the cill will not be secure!, Furthermore the flashing should be at least 75 mm vertical below the chase and then has to go over the roof covering which if it is slate will be two times the thickness of slate plus the thickness of the battens multiplied by the roof angle(pitch) factor!this will amount to somewhere around 50mm, much more if a thick concrete roof tile is applied, the 75mm clearance is to the highest point on the the roof except where it has to be just above the roof hip fitting!, also with any plain tile which will be similar to slate. As at 8minutes 50 it appears there is more or less one whole course of brick under the window cill, , one course below that, of about 60mm, the chase plus 75mm, plus the roof covering, which appears to be a plain tile, about 30mm, although not recommended at pitches below 30 degrees!, with batten, say another 30 mm, all adds up to a total of 195mm from the head of the rafters to the underneath of the cill. That is more than eight inches in old money and you can maybe image just how shocked I was when I discovered this of course the hard way because I was sent to fix roof tiles and flashings to extension structures that had been designed and built wrong!. A perfect example of the way in which the construction industry has lost it's way with sub-contractors unable to communicate with each other and builders who don't have to have any management skills!, just get it done big and quick and cheap!. I have posted this to you because like many of the tradesmen wlth whom I have had the pleasure to work over the years you seem to really care about what you are doing and take a pride in how you do it! .Oh and I just love the gadget, I wish I could have been a chippy!!. Cheers, Richard.

Neat but looks fiddly. Cant see it lasting long too many moving parts adds increases tolerances over time. Zero moving parts on a speed square.

GIVE ME A SQUARE NOTHING ELSE

100 DOLLARS!!! hmmmmm

I got a copy one and was garbage .I should have known better .the things a joke !

Sorry but the speed square is far superior

Dream tool because it's overpriced

Simple???? Fack me you lost me bud, ill stick to control panels an you can keep your wood with fancy names for cuts. 😀😀😀

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