Traditional Roof Construction Methods

Every member of a traditional cut roof is individually cut and assembled on site.

Traditional roof construction methods.

Building a pitched roof prefabricated. A truss roof using factory made trusses which are delivered to site complete and just erected. This is more of a traditional manner in regards to cutting the timber while onsite and building up the roof by the use of rafters ridge boards joists and purlins among others. Method of building concrete roofs with the right techniques housing.

One of the first stages of construction is fixing the wall plate. One pitched roof construction method is a cut roof method. This can be determined by the size of the timbers or the size of the roof. How to build roofs using excellent traditional techniques high rise housing construction thank for watching my video.

Hips and valleys are constructed. Roof construction roof construction. The traditional or cut roof is essentially a roof cut and assembled on site using individual timber members it is normally constructed using rafters and purlins. There are a couple of different methods for constructing pitched style roofs.

The most common structure used is where there is a gable at both ends of the roof. They span from the wallplate to the ridge board providing a platform for the underlay battens and tiles. The rafters are the main load bearing elements of the roof. Traditionally roofs were constructed on site using sawn timber typically with all joints simply.

The overall construction of a traditional cut roof is to ensure that the load of the roof is evenly transmitted to the walls below.