How should I approach lifting my ridge into place? Should I put rafters on the end of the ridge board and lift it up into place?
Also how do I make sure it is level? Do I just measure from the bottom of the ridge to the top of the joists and make sure it is equal on both end of the ridge?
Thanks
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How should I approach lifting my ridge into place?
Skyhooks, you'll need a pair.
Ck with your local rental yard.
Joe H
OK, that was a joke.
How bout some more info?
Is this a 18" tall glulam or a 2x12?
Joe H
Thanks Joe. 2x8x20'. 4/12 hip, single story, no snow loads, asphalt shingles, 8' walls.
Little skinny piece like that you can skip the sky hooks.
Working alone, Dave's the way.
Joe H
What kind of pitch did you want? I like to do the math first and then build a beam pocket on top of my gable end walls. Then I set one end of my ridge in the pocket and then move my ladder over to the other end and set that end in.
Thanks Dave. I have a hip roof,4/12 pitch,26'-5 1/2" span ,single story,8'walls, pretty much just a regular house.
I have a hip roof,4/12 pitch,26'-5 1/2" span ,single story,8'walls,
I thought it was 25' 5-1/2".
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Joe Carola
My goof Joe. 26 5 1/2 is correct.
He won't have a gable built first. I do it your way; build the gable, add some sort of ledger, set the ridge on the ledger. Walk to the other end. Set it up on my precut ridge support. Temp brace it. Start adding rafters. Usually, it's more trouble to have help rather than to do that alone.
He won't have a gable built first.
I've been wondering what he's doing.
He has so many threads going I don't know what he has up, but why doesn't he have his gabel ends framed?
Thought he was framing and standing sheathed walls, but I guess I haven't read everything he's posted.
Joe H
FWIW
My take on his posts is that he is asking questions ahead of his work in a lot of cases.
As if he sits down at night and sees an issue looming for him and asks a specific question concerning it long before he is actually doing the work associated with it then when an answer is given he has to back track and cover all the questions that come up before the one asked about.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Ya pretty much Dt.
Nail front and back commons on each end of the building into the top- plates and let the plumb cuts at the top butt into each other. Lift the ridge up in between the commons and slide into place and nail them up. That's all you need to do. The rafters set the ridge height and level.
If you give the exact span, ridge thickness and width of the rafter, I can give you the exact ridge height, but you still don't have to do that.
Thanks Joe.
Having started just setting trusses, usually 30 foot span 5/12................
The first time I had to set a ridge was in "The Hills" in Bedminster.
Took me about 6 times to get used to standing on that scaffolding 8 feet off the ceiling joists, holding two rafters and trying to push a ridge up between them.
Gets a bunch easier once you relax.
I want to know how you keep a 2x12 x 18' rafter standing in place while you get the mate nailed into place and then have that pair stand there while you repeat the procedure 20' away.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.