Framing Shed Roof Rafters

If you plan to have eaves to protect the shed walls make sure you add the extra length when measuring the rafters.

Framing shed roof rafters. The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. The skillion and shed style roofs are framed with a single slope 2 4 or 2 6 or thicker rafters spanning from the low wall to the high wall. Now build the remaining roof rafters using the original rafter template and the jig on the shed floor. If you re framing a gable roof on a new house or building a shed or even a doghouse with a gable roof you ll need to cut a number of roof rafters.

Sometimes the rafter will have a tail and extend out past the wall so that you have a soffit or overhang. Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. Lower the first rafter truss into place at either the front or back of the shed. More specifically it is a beam that goes from the peak of your roof down to the eve.

Difference between a rafter and truss. A stick framed roof uses 2x4 s or 2x6 s or whatever you are framing with but has a ridge board running down the middle ridge line. Attach the end rafters to the wall plates of your shed frame. Install the gussets on both sides of all the rafters except for the gable end rafters.

Fasten the truss by driving 8d finishing nails at an angle down through the board just above the birdsmouth notch and into the underlying wall plate. Skillion shed style roof framing. A rafter is the frame of your roof. Place a nail every three inches along the edges of the gusset.

Use 3 nails for each side.