Bay Window Roof Framing Calculator
You ll also have to plan for the bay window roof.
Bay window roof framing calculator. If you have windows and doors in your wall add them as needed with the add a window or add a door option. This bay window rafter script will print out a chart of all rafter lengths and angles for the baywindow. Plan out the roof. You should make the plan for the roof frame at this stage.
It looks like diy built the bay window roof. It s wrong and just plain ugly. Several handy framing calculators are available online for creating your plans. Framing a hipped roof for a bay window is harder than it looks.
For as long as architects have been drawing bay windows carpenters have been scratching their heads over how to frame the roofs. Equal pitch bay window rafter calculator. Bay roof a bay roof is a three sided roof framed against a vertical wall of a building usually covering a projection from the building such as a bay window or breakfast nook. A projection with four or more angled faces is a bow and cannot be calculated with easy rafters.
The starting pitch is 3 12 and the ending pitch is 16 12. Calculating common rafters with a construction calculator is fairly easy but to be a master carpenter you need more roof framing angle information then the construction calculators offers. First the instructions to find the ridge length is wrong. Most of the time a bay window will have a hip roof that s constructed using 45 degree angles.
This iphone app is for rough frame. This calculator will provide you with the estimated material needed to frame a stud wall and includes the options to add windows and doors. It s time to finish planning the roof frame. Stair tangent for iphone.
Roof framer s bible framing a bay window roof page 206 does not follow the holly grail of roof framing trigonometry and geometry. With the rafter tools android app you ll be able to. Do not use this method to framing bay window roofs. But once the window its frame and its cap are in place you can get started framing the roof.
Rafter tools is a rafter calculator for complex roof framing angles that other roof framing calculators don t offer.