5. Equal Slope Hip Roof

A _____ rafter extends from the outside corner of the building to the ridge at a 45° angle on an equal slope hip roof

• jack

• hip

• single cut

• gable

The process of chamfering both top edges of the hip rafter so it will be in the same plane as the common and jack rafters

• dropping the hip

• cheek cut

• double snip-snip

• backing the hip

bridging the square is

• the difference in line length in a series of jack rafters

• the procedure used to determine the inches of run on an equal sloped hip rafter

• the beveled cut on one face of the framing member

angled or beveled plumb cut

• cheek cut

• square cut

• elbow cut

• 35 degree cut

Common difference in length of jack rafters is the difference in line length in a series of jack rafters

• FALSE

• TRUE

A double cheek cut is a beveled cut on one face of the framing member

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

double cheek cut beveled cut on BOTH faces of the framing member

Amount deducted from the HAP of a hip rafter that allows the edges of the hip rafter to be in the same plane as the common rafters is known as

• dropping the hip

• bridging the square

• a difficult situation

• unit run of the hip

A shortened common rafter that, in plan view, extends 90° from the outside wall to the hip rafter

• backing of the hip

• hip jack rafter

• hip rafter

A single cheek cut is a beveled cut on both faces of the framing member

• SOMETIMES

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

A single cheek cut is a beveled cut on ONE face of the framing member

unit run of hip

• total horizontal dimension of a 1' square, approximately 16.97"

• diagonal dimension of a 1' square, approximately 16.97"

• a hip of running units