Overhangs can vary in width from a few inches to several feet.
Overlapping roof rafters.
How to sister a roof rafter.
Headers jacks sills beams girders rafters are all spliced together in one way or another.
The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof.
This is called prescriptive solutions.
Our roof rafter calculator tools are handy for calculating the number of rafters needed rafter length calculator lineal feet of rafter board feed in ridge and sub facia and the total board feet in the roof.
An overhang is the portion of the roof that runs past the wall providing coverage for the space around the foundation of your shed.
Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter.
Rise and run means that a 6 12 pitch roof has 6 of rise vertical for each foot of run horizontal.
If you re framing a gable roof on a new house or building a shed or even a doghouse with a gable roof you ll need to cut a number of roof rafters.
Sister refers to attaching an additional framing member alongside an existing member.
Benefits of roof overhang on sheds.
On sheds and homes overhangs are commonly referred to as eaves or rakes depending on where they are located.
With roofs this is done to improve the load value of rafters when installing.