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Date Posted: Tue, Aug 27 2002, 5:41am
Author: Judy Hargrove
Subject: building a hip roof

Re: Building a 14' x 16' freestanding screen room with a 6/12 hip roof (asphalt shingles). Is it necessary to have cross beams to support the roof and keep it from spreading?

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[> Re: building a hip roof -- Roofer1, Tue, Sep 03 2002,10:51pm

No. You'll want jack rafters on the hips and probably a ridge beam would be good but the cross beams aren't needed on a small roof like this one.


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[> Re: building a hip roof -- J B Davis, Sun, Oct 20 2002, 7:29pm

I am building a 16'x8' pool house with 5' frontal
soffit on a 4-1 pitch. The sides and back will have
a 1' soffit.
Will I have to canilever the sides and fill in at
the corners on the ceiling joists, in order to set
the rafters and jacks?
Thanks for any advise. I have never built anything
with a hip roof.


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