Hip Roof Design
Hip Roof Design
(OP)
Attached is a sketch and a roof plan that a client sent me and the contractor wants to stick build it. It is a 26' wide x 20' addition. The snow load here is 55 psf.
Do you see any issues with it?
Do you see any issues with it?






RE: Hip Roof Design
RE: Hip Roof Design
I think this roof would be a lot easier to design and build if you used roof trusses. They do hips, gables, etc. all the time.
DaveAtkins
RE: Hip Roof Design
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: Hip Roof Design
RE: Hip Roof Design
Our area is required to install hurricane ties where the rafters meet the exterior walls but is there some other connection required?
RE: Hip Roof Design
DaveAtkins
RE: Hip Roof Design
Richard L. Flower, P. E., LEED Green Associate
Senior Structural Engineer
Complere Engineering Group, Inc.
RE: Hip Roof Design
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: Hip Roof Design
Yup, seen plenty of big vaulted roofs - gable and hip that have no intentional support and are not sagging at all.
Then again, I have seen plenty that are pushing the walls out.