Hip Roof framing

[jsb]

Anybody know how to frame a hip where the corner of the building has been turned into a 45 angle not a 90. I know to come down the middle but how can I support this hip rafter with something other than nails from the jack rafters. This 45 angle is 4 feet long. Or would the other method of running 2 hip rafters be better.

[Joe Carola]

JSB,

You can extend your top plates out to the corner temporary just like the other corners braced up level and run your hip out there and frame your whole roof nailing the fascia on and nailing level 2x4 soffits to support the hip depending upon your overhang and pitch your level 2x4's might not hit the plates, if the will you can nail the 2x4 against the wall leveled in for the soffit and put a angle brace to support the hip and cut out the temporary plates.

On top of the 45° angle wall you nail a 2x4 under the hip and along side the hip on both ends extending the 2x4's up just under the top of the hip making sure you don't stick them above the plane of the roof and nail them into the side of the hip.

You can do the same thing to a hip jack that lands above the 45° wall also.

Joe Carola

[jsb]

The Pitch is 12/12 . Brick veneer with 7" of soffit , plumb cut fascia.
Any pictures or drawings of this design. The 45 angle wall is 2.5 feet away from a normal 90 degree corner .
thanks

[jsb]

Thanks for your help. Will there be a new traingle
formed at this 45 degree area. Your ideas seem to suggest that the roof is framed as normal and I'm to run fascia and soffit out to the end of the hip creating a large area of soffit.

[Joe Carola]

Thanks for your help. Will there be a new traingle
formed at this 45 degree area. Your ideas seem to suggest that the roof is framed as normal and I'm to run fascia and soffit out to the end of the hip creating a large area of soffit.

JSB,

It all depends on what way the plans show it. I thought you meant the whole roof being the same with 0ne hip at that corner but one side of the wall was clipped at a 45° but your overhang there would be bigger like in my first drawing.

If the drawings show two hips it would be like a Bay Roof and the overhang would follow the 45° and be the same all the way around.

Is it something like the top left corner in drawing #2 ?

Joe Carola