Cut and pitch your own loft conversion or extension roof.. it’s really not that hard!

Cut and pitching the roof on this double storey extension 🏠

We’ve taken on building the timber roof on this extension ourselves as we was let down by the carpenter.
Once you’ve got your head round the angles and setting out it’s not that hard if you’ve dabbled in cutting and pitching roofs before.
All you need is badic carpentry skills and some badic tools and you can too try your hand at building and roofing.

The rafters are 6”x2”
The ridge Is 9”x3”
The hips are 8”x2”

We’ve got some other Timbers still to Install but we’ll cover this In the next video.

Tools needed was:
Roofing square
Sliding bevel
Hand saw
Circular saw
Tape measure
String line
Spirit level
Nail gun.

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[gdfggggg]

I’ve done quite a few of these in my time. Watched someone do one and went from there. Problem is I’ll do something like that every 5yrs so next time round I forget everything. I remember finding the hip height a bit of a challenge but once they’re in the rest was a piece of cake. Good job.

[RMMaryport]

That pitch looks different to existing roof

[phillipkelly]

That explains it... couple of bricklayers 😂

[TheManchesterCarper]

Lots of negative comments but you do learn on the job.
I’d recommend working of detailed drawings and checking the pitches All round. Incorporate dragon ties always and bolt the ceiling joists to the rafters at the bottom as standard. Building inspection can help but should not be relied on and a decent structural engineer can offer a specification to work to. 👍

[MrBez]

Dont mention your a brickie, joiners hate the fact they cant use a trowel but you can use a saw 😂

[WombleUK]

What area in the UK are you guys? In my area (West Herts been Chippy for 37yrs) most building inspectors won't let you infill with cripple rafters on top of the existing hip rafters (unless it's a porch type roof) & insist the existing roof is stripped back to the existing common rafters removing all the existing hips & hip rafters & replacing with new commons or cripples depending on if its a valley or straight roof run.

This is when the new roof is running in line though & not when the new extension roof is lower & then obviously it's lay boards.

[starofdavid]

Should have shortened the ridge to marry with the existing pitches, more Symmetrical and a stronger roof, joist hangers and truss clips are not expensive.

[centexan]

Where the rafters meet brick seems a bit odd.

[richardwoods]

Yeah hand cutting a roof is a piece of piss thats why it takes us years of training years of experience an you turn up with a pazlode and a hatchet crack on lads im sure the customer will pay the bill 😂

[adriancarter]

Hope ya brick work is better.!!!
Leave the roofs to a roofing chippy.

[jimjones]

bricklayers shouldnt play with thing they dont understand, the roof is wrong, rip it off

[iainhair]

Did you need to get that roof design agreed and signed off by a structural engineer and building control , or was it just made up on site ??

[HarinderSingh-pzyi]

Looks great lads, can you tell me how to work out the bevel angle for the jacks?

[skutterbuster]

Been there, done that
Looks pretty good apart from the rafter ends....i dont understand why you have cut the ends level with the brick work at the end
Leaves no flat face for fascia and not enough room for soffit...unless yiou nail timber on the bottoms, which the whole process is a waste of time

[NickBFTD]

You only have 8 minutes to pitch that roof but you waste the first minute pointing.

[baz]

Roof looks like a church pitch… terrible doesn’t match the existing.. if you were a good carpenter you would know that’s a massive no no….. cmon boys stick to buttering bricks 🧱 where you can be rough…. Not building frames tiss tiss