Framing And Roof Crickets

Here the build roof dialog is being used to set the defaults for manually drawn roof planes.

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. Always frame the cricket at the same pitch as the roof and you will be within code guidelines. Do not check build roof planes. Install a waterproof membrane over the cricket sides and edges fastened to the cricket with a construction stapler.

Secure the plywood triangles to the roof decking and cricket ridge with galvanized screws. 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. Put metal flashing along the sides of the cricket nailed in place to overlap seams with the roof. 2x8 sleepers should be nailed to the roof surface to pick up the ends of the rafters.

In this example a pitch of 12 12 and 1 1 2 x 5 1 2 rafters are specified. 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.