Archy wants large stepped overhangs at the gables, 3-step rake trim, boxed soffit, all to infer a massive roof, adjacent a structure of floor-truss-like engineered rafters. Lookouts are shown here at 24″ centers. We’ve a design snowload of 50 psf.
If the truss plant makes and kits up parts like shown in the pic, the high-cost framers can pop up the arrangement pretty quickly. No cutting, no thinking, just hang and spike.
We’ll do this in the winter, so there is plenty of time to get creative and simplify for cost.
Your laughter, your slings and arrows, flames, and constructive comments are all appreciated.
(I am posting this anyhow, having failed to be able to attach the .gif pic. When I click on “ATTACH FILES,” the dialog box comes up for a split second, then disappears, and a red round circle with a “can’t do” slash across it appears at my cursor over the “ATTACH FILES” button. Whazzup?)
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Reformat yur pics to a JPG/JPEG... Then attach...
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Another try after a reboot. AND, I turned off my popup blocking software. That was the problem.
That picture makes me dizzy.
Bob are you a birder? Those would make great places for bird houses. ;-)
Given what the rest of the roof will involve, this seems to be relatively simple. It is hard to see how you could build something like this more simply. I think that it will look great. Is the same detail on the dormers? Or something smaller?
We'll have eleven of these to do, and after watching the framers figure, cut, assemble, and hang lookout assemblies last fall, I wanted to make it work like legos this time.
The reachout at the top is more like 40 inches, and with those big 16-inch faces, for three lapped 1x8s, I thought this would work fine.
Truss plant cutting and assembly always sounds more cost effective to me than doing it on site in the rain and snow.
Boy is that gonna be fun.......sittin there scrathin your azz trying to figure out what goes where in the middle of the winter.
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Eric
It'll look great once you get all those knocked over bookcases out of the way of that gable.
Kinda looks like a hayloft door canopy. All we need is a big iron ring for the pulley block to hang on.
My pic shows the "long" lookout section shorter than it will be. These are big roofs, with the truss rafters being 28 feet long, and the long part of the gable reachout comes about half way down the rake.