How To Frame A Dutch Hip Roof

A large overhang on a dutch hip roof requires a few changes to the normal construction method.

How to frame a dutch hip roof.

Applies to chief architect premier chief architect interiors and home designer pro. 6 in and the roof pitch 5. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. Here we consider two types of hipped roofs see picture.

This kind of roof design therefore works well with homes as well as barns garages and sheds. It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features. The hip section of the dutch roof requires several framing members. To figure out the lengths of all of these framing members i use the setback distance 5 ft.

Dutch hip roof design is both aesthetic and practical. If the wall plates are all square of equal lengths then the hipped rafters would form a pyramid shape like the picture above normally a roof is rectangle and there are more yellow common rafters. Select build roof build roof to open the build roof dialog. Quite often the triangle of the gable stands in line with the masonry wall below as the walls sometimes rise to the roof and even form a parapet.

Hip rafters that run 45 from the corners dutch common rafters that run perpendicular to the gable end and hip jack rafters that die into the hip rafters. I planned to use the experience to teach the contractor s crew western style framing. In this example a simple 20 x 30 building with 109 1 8 ceiling height is used. Hip rafters are the diagonal rafters that span from the ridge at the top down to the corners of the roof.

Open a chief architect plan in which you would like to create a dutch hip roof. In 2011 i was given the opportunity to frame up four small houses with dutch hip roofs on a remote island in the tropics. A gable roof construction features a sloping roof that is angled downward towards the home. The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof.

This design is great because it is not only easy to build but it is also easily modified.