Roof Cuts And Rafter Lengths Book

Roof cuts and rafter lengths hancock s 10th edition is a very popular best selling book.

Roof cuts and rafter lengths book. Exact lengths of all rafters including all regular and irregular hips valleys commons and jacks. Invaluable to anyone who wants to cut a roof by hand and not use trusses. It will help you with plumb and side cuts for hip and rafter down and side purlin cuts and more. The respective lengths for those two rafters and add them together.

With calculations diagrams and tables. For larger roofs though i use a roofing ready reckoner. There are a few good ready reckoners. The most useful book ever if you want to cut a roof.

You put in the width and the pitch and this book will give you the full length of the rafter. Tail or eave length. Rafter book page 1 created date. The tail or eave overhang must be added to the rafter length.

Details cuts and bevels for all rafters. Each page has a different table depending on the pitch angle of your roof with all the figures you need. Subtract what you are using as a ridge and you have your length perfect every time. Calculations for roof frames roof cuts and rafter lengths.

A ready reckoner is pretty much a rafter length calculator a book full of tables for working out the rafter lengths quickly and easily. Gives rafter runs to locate ridges and framing points. Roof sheathing cuts and angles.