How to make a swooping roof

The swooping roof is finally installed on the Needham project.

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[jtaratuta]

My folks built a house when I was going on four years old. It was my best educational experience ever. It's still one of my first memories in life, especially the smell of the pine wood, the mortar, and the pitch put on the outside of the basement like smooth-dark chocolate. I remember almost every detail of the wiring and the masons building the double-sided chimney and the mudding after the drywall went up. The ceilings were plastered and I can still see the trowels working back and forth and the mud-man bringing more mud to men walking on stilts. The builders were my uncles, so it was like they were building my castle and I was the king. Alas, school soon started after, and my great education ended. My parents and uncles are long gone and the house has another young family in it, but I will always cherish the memories of it being built.

[matthewp]

Beautiful job- I just have a hard time with a roof that requires so much material and work when it adds no livable space.

[dvanarsdell]

Did you consider having all straight members for the trusses and then achieve the curve with straight sleepers running perpendicular to the trusses? The sleepers would vary in depth to achieve the curvature.

[wildtwindad]

Its a shame the referenced radius couldn't be brought into the interior ceiling. That would have added height and a softness to the standard square framing.

[nottherealjk]

Can you elaborate on the engineering requirements that necessitated the 12" spacing? Snow and wind load for the area? Did the curve need tighter spacing for the fasteners to hold the roof sheathing down? Beautiful work but man, so much lumber!

Also, it's a shame that the ceilings couldn't be vaulted on the second floor with how steep that roof pitch is. What's the interior height?

[gibsonorbust]

Great solution to a materials constraint! Can’t wait to see more about the roof install and final build

[robert-levesque]

Félicitations à tous vos collaborateurs et bravo à toute l’équipe NS Builders…!

[davem]

I get adding the curved piece but those lvl’s and the 12” spacing seem way over what these would be if made in a truss shop. What loading, wind, and deflection criteria were used?

[ColeSpolaric]

Looking good. Can't wait to see this dried in.

[ScottyDMcom]

The LVLs look plenty strong for 24-inch on center, but bending the roof deck might be a problem at that truss spacing. Maybe that's why the engineer spec'd 12-inch OC. The trusses could be made with less wood/less waste, but you'd be trading lots of man-hours to achieve that.

[jameswilliams]

Love this. Thanks for showing. Hard to find framing for this method.

[rafaelellis-rech]

Wow curves sure are expensive 12 inches in center dam! This house is quite the effort awesome that the home owners have these videos to see how there home is being created!

[Noboundries]

I think this is cool, it’s definitely different, and so much to learn from on this job!

[jakehill]

Nice job! Looks to be a pretty wide sweep.l wonder if it would be cost effective to cnc the radius out of 5x10x1" advantech and laminate with offseting joints. Then you can program the "Waste" for blocking?
Keep up the great work with the podcast.

[davoyan]

Seems like you just discovered "LVL" couldnt count how many time you said LVL.
So cool bro 😎
Maybe you should try saying laminated veneer lumber atleast once because not everyone watching construction videos on youtube is a contractor and builds houses for a living

[jamesoncross]

Awesome, over built lasts the test of time better than building it just enough. Were the Pyramids built "just enough for the load" ?

[MrTooTechnical]

The roof is awesome. But you are missing tons of thru bolts to really tie these roof components together.

[Young_Star]

How you make the facia boards on the swooped edge?

[klundin]

Great Job! What will the finished roof be on this house? Would look incredible with slate!

[zippitydoowopjoe]

A lot of engineering happening here. Although consider that a hundred years ago and beyond they made curved roofs all the time and didn't go through half of this work or lumber to do so. And most of those structures are still standing.