The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book : containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs ... (1888)
Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells) · New York : John Wiley & Sons · leaf 20
evel willbe the same on each end of the jack. 8. In framing a hip-roof without a deck-ing or observatory, a ridge-pole is nsed, andof such a length as to bring the hip on amitre line; but this ridge-pole must be cuthalf its thickness longer at each end, or thehip will be thrown out of place and… … 7 i 16 THE carpenters should be cut four feet four inches long, so | that the centre line on the hip, will point to the centre of the end of the ridge-pole, \ J, at four feet long. This simple fact is often \ overlooked. • 9. To frame a concave hip-roof,—(This ] is much used for verandas,…
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