Week 15: January 31-February 6

Week 15 and we're dividing our time this week between the sheds, and our mock hip and valley roof system. Starting this week out we, were wrapping up our trim on the roofs. The soffits were put into place last week, and this week we were focusing on getting our facia up over the ladders on each side of the building. The facia on each side was Kreg drilled, one screw hole in the center of one board, two Kreg screw holes just on either side of that center screw hole, but in the second board. The boards were clamped together and glued to help keep the boards as one unit. We then used square head pocket screws to anchor the boards together. Once the facia was assembled, we put it in place over the ladder assembly and nailed it in place with 7d galvanized nails.

During the remainder of the week, I predominately worked on the mockup hip/valley roof system. This photo is of the valley rafter I put in place, fitting up against the intersecting ridge boards.

A second view of the valley rafter meeting the two ridge boards.

Here you can see the inverted and extroverted V shape face cuts on the tail end of the hip and valley rafters (The hip rafter tail is all the way to the left, the valley in the right hand corner.) The hip rafter tail has a face cut on both sides, creating a outward pointing V. The Valley rafter tail has an inverted V. When these rafters are put in place, the idea is that the tail angles will all be on one plane, making it possible to put facia up, without any interference from any protrusions or mis-alignments. 

A better look at the inverted V cut on the end of the valley rafter

The alignment of the (starting at 12 o' clock and going clockwise) top valley rafter, the intersecting ridge board, valley rafter, main ridge board, valley rafter, intersecting ridge board, valley rafter and main ridge board again.

Lastly, a more overall view of the hip and valley rafters, with a common rafter to the far right. The hip rafter meets the intersecting ridgeboard and common rafter (to the far left). In the middle the valley rafter intersects with the intersecting ridge board and the main ridge board. The common rafter to the right, butts up against the end of the main ridge board, and other hip rafters will be cut to come in at an angle to them.