A hipped roof creates a graceful and artistic timber frame structure, such as a gazebo. The peak requires more complex joinery than a simple mortise and tenon. In the peak joinery of a hipped roof, you have four rafters joining to the king post or boss pin. The fun and challenging compound joinery is required. In order to preserve as much wood as possible, structural all thread rod is used to strengthen the joints and to resist the loads exerted.
The rafters are housed into the king post. In this example, there is a 1″ housing cut into the post, and the roof load is supported by the bearing surface of the housing. Housings for the all thread rod are notched into the upper part of the rafter and secure into the post, while being completely hidden from sight. Each of the two all thread rods pass through the post and secure opposing rafters together, creating a super strong connection.
So this would work for a 6 or 8 rafter gazebo as well.
The central post would have to be large enough in section to permit that many facets
What program do you do the modelling on?
This was modeled in AutoCAD then converted to SketchUp for the renderings. We also use the Cadwork platform.
I would like to know what timber frame joints look like when you have a gable roof that comes off the corner of a hip roof.
Having a hard time picturing what you are looking for. Can you email us an image of the roof line you are trying to create?
Hi Brice,
Great joint plans as always. Do you sell these plans as sketchup downloads? I can see you sell the project plans but what I really need is a few of your joint plans so I can slot them into my own existing sketchup plans. Can’t see anywhere to buy them on the site. Thanks. Leo.
Leo, we can not sell the sketchup files. Good luck with your project!