Simplified Roof Framing

"Updated with 12 new Fine Homebuilding articles, this latest edition covers roof-framing basics as well as advanced techniques on building dormers and raising trusses, and includes information on how t use rafter squares, cordless framing nailers, and other framing tools"--Back cover.

Full-Length Roof Framer A series of tables giving the full length of all rafters for any span for 48 different pitches. Cuts and bevels for Common, Hip, Valley, Jack, and Purlin rafters; also cuts and bevels for Gable and Cornice Mouldings, accompanying each of the 48 pitches with illustrations. This revised edition includes the metric framing tables for the ten most common base 12 roof slopes.

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Geometry is the base of all Trigonometric Functions in roof framing.