Traditional Roof Construction Methods

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

Traditional roof construction methods.

Pitched roof construction a cut roof this is the traditional method of cutting the timber on site and building up the roof using rafters. Building a pitched roof traditional joinery method. One pitched roof construction method is a cut roof method. They span from the wallplate to the ridge board providing a platform for the underlay battens and tiles.

In this method there are joists and rafters. Hips and valleys are constructed. How to build roofs using excellent traditional techniques high rise housing construction thank for watching my video. 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.

The rafters are the main load bearing elements of the roof. One of the first stages of construction is fixing the wall plate. Roof construction roof construction. This can be determined by the size of the timbers or the size of the roof.

A truss roof using factory made trusses which are delivered to site complete and just erected. Building a pitched roof prefabricated. 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.

There are a couple of different methods for constructing pitched style roofs.