How To Trim Roof Rafters For Rain Gutters

When you cut the rafters you ll need to make 3 separate cuts.

How to trim roof rafters for rain gutters.

Cut out each 3 ft 0 91 m section one at a time until you ve removed the full board. Diagonal piece of beam supporting the roof. Boards under the high point and just above the roof framing. Horizontal beams that sit on top of the rafters.

The roof rafters provide integral structural support to the roof. A horizontal piece of timber or metal installed on top of the rafters. Mark out 3 ft 0 91 m sections along your fascia board with a pencil. Overlapping tiles used as roof covering.

The ridge cut also called the plumb cut at the top of the rafter the birdsmouth cut. I need to put continuos gutters on a 12 4. Before you cut your boards you ll need to measure the width of your building and calculate the exact length of each rafter. Horizontal beams fixed under the rafters.

If the gutter run measures longer than 40 feet 12 2 m it should be positioned to pitch down from the middle aimed toward a downspout at each end. Make vertical cuts into the fascia board between your roof rafters. Two thoughts i am thinking of making a triangle trim to nail onto the entire facia about 1 2 up from the bottom to make the gutter plumb or just nailing some square stock where the bottom of the gutter will land. Square cut rafter tails 2x6 facia no soffit.

Rick arnold frequent contributor to fine homebuilding and the journal of light construction presenter at jlc live the katz roadshow the remodeling show. At the ends of the gutters are 4 inch diameter corrugated aluminum downspouts 1 75 per linear foot which were ordered in white to match the house trim. Cut the board into 3 ft 0 91 m sections with a reciprocating saw.