Fram A Roof On The Ground

While you re at it some carpenters.

Fram a roof on the ground.

Another way to stage it on the ground if your not going to frame anything in just preassemble packages is to take some joists and build a rim board floor to set them on. I was more than a little excited by the idea. Building on the ground allows us to have a team working on the roof right from the beginning of the project rather than only starting the roof once the foundation and walls are completed. Given the risks involved with wrestling with heavy materials in high winds far above solid ground i d rather pass.

Start by marking the plumb line the horizontal line that marks where the wall will meet the rafter. This kind of multi tasking shortens the entire build cycle as the mostly completed roof is set in place as soon as the walls are ready to receive it. Then it occurred to me that my crew and i could eliminate the danger and discomfort of framing and shingling a roof by doing everything on the ground. This assembly can be used as an anchorage point for installing conventional fall protection.

You should be able. Don t shy away from lifting up packages of 8 trusses at a time 16 material to brace them together. Line up the square with the plumb line then rotate it 180 degrees realigning the square on the other side of the. Once the ground assembled roof component system is installed install ground bracing to the first truss in the system as outlined in b1.

Simple cottage hip or gable roof would be faster to just frame in place. Frame roof on ground although they are close to the ground framing porch roofs on the ground is super convenient because you can do all the beam work too.