Mono Pitch Roof Framing

The greater the roof s pitch the better it will shed snow ice and rain.

Mono pitch roof framing.

Step 1 use prefabricated mono trusses for the easiest and best framing on a single slope roof. Back then local lumberyards stocked mono slope ridge flashing that looked like oversized drip edge. Pitch also has its own denotation determined by the rise in inches in 12 inches. Pitch for a gable roof the most common is generally 1 4 or 1 3.

You will also incur additional costs because it is much harder to deck and shingle a roof that is 12 12 pitch versus a 4 12 roof. But instead of being installed before the roofing in the usual drip edge fashion mono slope flashing is installed with the roof leg on top of the roofing and the vertical leg extending down over the fascia. Mono pitched roofs are also known by the names of skillion roofs shed roofs pent roof and lean to roof. Select an angle of slope away from a house into an area with good drainage and complementary to an existing house or other building.

It is also easier to insulate a roof with a greater pitch. Homes with a mono pitch roof are usually designed with large windows or multiple windows to take advantage of natural light. How to scribe mono pitch roof rafters. The high back wall below the ridge of the monopitch roof must be braced to the full height of the wall not shown.

Measure the outline of the structure to be roofed with a tape measure or get dimensions from a house plan. Here s my top plate as you can see. The steeper the roof the more expensive the trusses get because the longer the boards get and the more roof area increases. This is the distance between trusses.

While the gabled roof is always pitched in two directions the mono pitch always slants in a single direction. This is the low end we ve extended this end up however as i said in our previous video this is not the best practice. For instance a 4 12 pitch denotes. A sub variation of the mono pitch is known as saw tooth as pictured below.

They differ considerably from the conventional gabled roofs in shape and construction. The standard roof truss spacing is 2. Pitch can vary a great deal from a shallow slope up to a very steep pitch. The minimum roof pitch is 1 8 inch rise per foot of span.

Roof plane bracing and roof space bracing as alternatives. Which is equal to 1 4 or 1 3 the total span of the building not counting any overhang. Ceiling support framing and dwangs omitted for clarity. Scissors provides a cathedral or vaulted ceiling.

In this video i just want to quickly show you how you can mark out the position of your birdsmouth on a skillion or flat or what else they call a mono slope mono pitch roof. Fascia board fascia board top plate. Figure 1 monopitch roof with full height braced walls. The total rise is 12 inches or 1 foot and the span is 4 feet so the pitch would be 1 4 or a quarter pitch roof.