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Framing endwalls for single-slope roof with outlookers – GreenBuildingAdvisor
- January 10, 2025
- Posted by: sherwin@eyeconz.com
- Category: Uncategorized
So I’m building a small house with a low pitch, single slope (shed) roof, wood frame construction. In Florida, so strict building code and structural requirements. I can’t quite figure out the best way to handle the detail of the angled top plates of the two end (rake) walls.
I’m obsessing over the need to overlap the double top plates at the corners but this seems impossible because of how the end wall top plate will meet the side walls at an angle – they will just butt up to the side walls and sit on their own corner studs which will obviously be nailed to the eave wall corner stud groups.
The top of the end walls top plates have to match the plane of the bottom of the rafters, because the roof designs calls for a 1′ rake overhangs formed by outlookers. No, I cannot do the overhang with an add-on ladder structure.
It bothers me that top plates can’t overlap at the upper corners, but am I overthinking this?
I attached a cross-section for reference. It’s the short exterior end walls for the loft 2nd floor that I’m talking about. No framing detail in the plans other than the outlookers themselves.