Traditional Roof Construction Timbers

Laid across roof beams.

Traditional roof construction timbers. Sand creek post beam uses massive 8x full dimensional timber in our frames. The timbers are often 400mm or so centres and vary in size according to span. Whether you are building a home barn or commercial space our 8x timbers create a structure that is built to last the test of time. The beams will.

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. They span from the wallplate to the ridge board providing a platform for the underlay battens and tiles. For builders in timber rich north america wood shingles were the obvious choice for the earliest roofs and ultimately the most common roofing material for houses well into the 20th century. There are a couple of different methods for constructing pitched style roofs.

Timbers of the frame and is known as wattle and daub. The rafters are the main load bearing elements of the roof. When a reference is made within this rule to a federal statutory provision an industry consensus standard or any other technical publication the specific date and title of the publication as well as the name and address of the promulgating agency are listed in rule 4101 8 44 01 of the administrative code. Every member of a traditional cut roof is individually cut and assembled on site.

50mm wide by 75mm 100mm or 125mm deep are all common. Originally hand split from local woods oak and pine in the northeast to cypress in the south wood shingles were typically shaved smooth for high style and garden variety houses. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall floor and roof construction such as log timber framed balloon framed or stacked plank. The traditional option is steeply pitched rarely less than 35.

The sand creek standard. Traditional or cut roof. One pitched roof construction method is a cut roof method. A truss roof using factory made trusses which are delivered to site complete and just erected.

A cut roof this is the traditional method of cutting the timber on site and building up the roof using rafters ridge boards joists and purlins etc the exact details being determined by the size of roof size of timbers etc. American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the united states since european settlement. There are two basic methods of pitched roof construction. As you can see in the photos below the difference is substantial when compared to common 6x timbers.

It consisted of vertical timbers or staves fixed between two horizontal members of the timber frame this element is the wattle. Roof building is one of the more complex aspects of site carpentry and is a highly skilled job as the timbers are cut on site and erected one at a time it is both relatively slow and relatively expensive.