Roof Beam Construction Process

Place a piece of the plywood on the bottom corner of your roof making sure the edges are on a rafter beam.

Roof beam construction process. Experience in ground control evaluation of. Roof beam hrsg construction. Put roof sheathing on top of your roof. Unfortunetly i ll have to split it up into two parts because winter has come and it s slowin.

Use 1 2 in 1 3 cm plywood to cover the entire surface of your roof. The process includes preliminary design engineering creating shop drawings ordering the timbers from the mill fabrication assembly and raising. They are fixed underneath the rafters and help prevent roof sag. Regardless of the level of modularization all hrsg structures are designed as a system of moment.

Use construction nails 6 in 15 cm apart to secure the plywood around the outer perimeter and along each support. The design process starts at the roof and continues down to the foundation. These are the horizontal members that provide a structure to fix the ceiling and support and fix the diagonal rafters that define the roof shape and are attached at the top to a ridge beam. We use the latest in architectural computer design but still handcraft our timber frames the old fashioned way because simply put it is the best way.

Various natural fibre composites have been used for the rafter purlin ridge board and hip or valley. This is the second video in the post beam construction series. Loads are described in terms of pounds.