How To Roof An Octagon

How to shingle a gazebo roof.

How to roof an octagon.

A gazebo is a great way to add a nice outdoor area to your backyard. A gazebo typically has an asphalt shingle roof because that. Daizen joinery 19 065 views. Match up the corners of the octagon roof and octagon bottom.

Like a house or garage roof a gazebo roof is prone to wear and damage eventually requiring replacement. Octagon roof by daizen joinery. Octagon gazebo roof scaled down model for rafter joint style illustration purposes. A total of eight common and eight hip rafters make a roof with a 20 in 12 pitch.

Allow to dry for a couple of hours. Daizen heavy timber frame with hutteman panel first try in full scale project long version duration. Long and combine to create a base width of 9 ft. Allow to dry for a couple of hours.

6 159 on the tongue and 10 on the body to draw out the plumb and level cuts of the octagon hip rafter. This article was co authored by david bitan. In this example the octagon segments are 4 ft. Dab wood glue on to the tops of the 8 dowel rods and set the octagon roof on top of it.

David bitan is a roofing professional licensed contractor and the owner and founder of bumble roofing based in southern california. Then i cut all the parts and assemble the roof on the deck next to its intended location. Most gazebos have a shingle roof and are similar to most h. Using the chappell master framing square line 1 under 8 12 6159.

Glue the 8 poles into the very inside of each corner of the bottom octagon using wood glue. Or they could have purchased a chappell master framing square that has the hexagon and octagon roof framing information printed on the square. Once you enter the basic roof dimensions and enter the type of roof you will get a very accurate result telling you exactly the amount of shingles that are required to cover your new roof.