We are in the middle of renovating our house in an abandoned Portuguese village. After days of rain today finally it seems like we are in luck. So let’s continue with that roof. I have made a little model of the house and roof part to show you what the issue is we are dealing with.
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I am a subscriber residing in Sintra ( Lisbon area ) I follow the progress of your project and in my opinion the highest point of the roof in the rectangular area. Cut level the three remaining walls of the trapeze and put pyramid roof in the remaining area. Good luck
Those are NOT bricks they are tijolos, weaker than bricks. CAREFUL DANGEROUS 😳
Wow! Look at all the comments coming out of the woodwork! Some interesting advice! You have hit a nerve, Jasper.
Making a model of the project puts things in perspective, and is a clever idea. Sorry not to be of any help. Good luck.
No No Jasper! You have to continue the brick gable on the wall diagonally and finish at zero at the change of angle, and there you will have a constant roof slope!
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Explanations for the use of the sketchup software;
you draw "on the ground" (so on your virtual sheet of paper very easily the existing walls, each with their own thickness as they are now, then you "lift" them with your mouse to their real height from the ground , you will obtain the exact dimensions of your frame structure to the centimeter and even to the ready millimeter. it is disconcertingly easy, you have no calculations to do because it is the software that gives them to you and in addition you see what it looks like if you were in front of a real model you will also be able to see what it looks like when you are under your roof by placing yourself as a virtual character.
to help you, you must make a peripheral blue line 1 meter above the ground (on all the interior walls of this part of your real house) to take your height reading, as we do in masonry to use it base mark
make an outdoor patio under the roof where the angle begins. keep the line of the roof straight. it would mean putting in a post outside the line of the wall.
the free CAD software "sketchup" would help you a lot, if you don't want to use it yourself, you could give us the dimensions and we'll send you the different possible results
Hi Jasper. I think it might be easier to go back to the original roof layout. I looked back at one of your early videos. There must have been a good reason why they built the roof in that way. ATB
I don’t want to appear rude but this is well above your capabilities, but I doubt you will see this until you try . Don’t waste your time and money. I would love to help but it’s even to complicated to try and explain to somebody with very little experience in wood work. Good luck.
Don’t do what you’re proposing to do it will never work. I’ve been a joiner carpenter for 60+ years. Please believe me. Regards
Jasper, really interesting video, the model is a great way of visualising the problem and trying out solutions. I think keeping the roof at the same slope would be a much better solution, as soon as you introduce changes in angle, with hip joints & ridges then it is more time consuming and can add risk to leaks especially if you do not have lots of roofing experience. if you extend the ridge rafter so that it overhangs the end gable, then run your wall plate out past the end of the wall then it would let you create some additional structure to form an overhang so that you can avoid small cuts at the end of the roof, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXZ6wNb_vm4&t=75s. found this video on YouTube that might help. Also the overhang will help with waterproofing the joint between the roof and walls. I would frame the extension to the wall in timber, and it also gives you an opportunity to install a window in that section, to add some light at that end of the building. If you clad the external face of the timber infill with cement board, you can still render over that section so it look s similar to the rest of the house. Good luck, cant wait to see the follow on videos.
hello, the scaffolding is badly assembled, you have to turn over one of the 2 "orange ladders", put the bottom up, have a nice day
We have angled roofs here in the uk known as hip end may be look it up, this could possibly work for you.
Hipped end
A sloped, triangular surface is formed at the roof end, known as the hipped end.
After some thought if you build the eve wall at the end with the angle in lower than the other your have a slop which will make the angle less. Looking back to when you started it was originally done that way 👍
good place a window..one that tilts open in the frame. ⤴🔄🔨
OR… you could make your slab rectangle as usual, and have your wall cutting off that cornor of your house like a piece of pie, yet make the slab a outside front porch and continue with an even roof.
hang a string for wall height needed?
Square the angled room and use as storage from outside. Or walk in wardrobe.
this the way to do it and why .in the last rafter in the streat roof use a wood column (2 rafter thick ) then use horizontal rafters to the gable end.(the why ) if you do it your way you will have an overhang on the street and any car wll take down the roof and you have electrical pole . on the roof transition column use the tile you use on the top of the roof it will look nicer and less work.😀