Framing And Roof Crickets

The cricket or saddle basically rests on top of the house roof to visually extend the porch roof gracefully into the house roof.

Framing and roof crickets. This also makes it easier. This beam will provide the backbone for the cricket or saddle. Ok so a four foot wide chimney has a span of 4 foot and half of that is the run which is 2 foot. You will need to use compound miter cuts for the cricket rafters.

This is the number which we will use to lay out our rafter for the cricket. Do not check build roof planes. Here the build roof dialog is being used to set the defaults for manually drawn roof planes. Install a waterproof membrane over the cricket sides and edges fastened to the cricket with a construction stapler.

Select build roof build roof from the menu and in the build roof dialog specify the pitch framing and any other attributes that you will need for the cricket. In this example a pitch of 12 12 and 1 1 2 x 5 1 2 rafters are specified. Always frame the cricket at the same pitch as the roof and you will be within code guidelines.