How to cut hip rafter points and using a splayed birds mouths

I'm robbing clairebear I'd like to show you the way I cut the tops of my hip rafters because a lot of people contact me and ask me how to find the angles out and all the rest of it and I won't be going through that in much greater depth when I do my roofing square app and videos that go with the app so that will take you through the steps of how to mark them out using the square and how simple it is and how you calculate the links or how you do direct measurement in my case so I'm just making these really small hip rafters from 250 by 50 and they go on the end of this roof it's a predominantly gable to gable with what we call barn ends which is a small hipped end on each end it's a really nice little detail because we're using a 250 here it's it's quite deep and that's because the rafters are 200 and the idea is is when the rafter is cut into it it's not hanging below the hip but what they can sometimes do is create its own problems because a lot of the timber you find has bit copying a bit bowi and when you run a circular saw over the top it's sometimes binds but these new tools these new 18 bolt tools which are lightweight and they've got a super fine blade but I find the blades don't tend to bind very much so all this technology this new 18-volt technology the blades which are even thinner than we used to is helping me it's actually helping me more I'm gonna cut through one of these and show you just exactly how that is done so the angle on the saw is set so the angle where the two rafters so that's the crown rafter and the Ain common rafter meet and it's actually on plan it's 90 degrees because it's an equal pitched roof but when you actually mark that on the top of the timber if you were doing this by hand you would expecting to be 45 base not 45 but I'm gonna go into that in more depth when I do my roofing videos ok so here's one week it's actually got a splayed birds mouth because it actually sits on a wall which passes through this one I've got a plumb cut marked both sides squared from the top circular saw set so it won't go all the way through and the reason why I do that is because once you've cut one side I've still got some support for the base of the saw and it's gonna knock off that that's a little bit like sometimes the valley rafter when I do the valley rafter I sometimes give one of those as well [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so I'm gonna go slop one of those in now and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about [Applause] so displayed birdsmouth is because it sits over this gable wall the top of the gable Ward's with the top of the rafters and that is the corner as if it was a was a hip building for light so this will go over here appointment the top so back margin there's the same as the rafter measured plumb it's quite technical this but as I say I'll go through it in more detail in the future and all the edges of the hips the rafters they should all be on the same plane so when the roofer comes along fixes these battening on it's all equal and everything's nice and true just like that and that's basically what you want so I'll get these all fixed in I've got a couple of jack rafters to put in and these long jet grasses which go down there then it's a matter of cutting the eaves off put my fascia boards on and we're done I want to say a quick shout out to Carl Moore who is one of my subscribers and viewers and Heidi got in touch with me and said you've got to give a shout-out to Carl Moore so hello Carl thanks for watching and keep up the good work mate you were a fellow junior check me out soon

Channel: Robin Clevett

Views: 149,914

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Id: QB4acgUpAs0

Length: 6min 3sec (363 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020