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Roof framing question
OK, I am failing to get my brain around this roof framing.
Framing is under the roof of the addition bumped out from the back of the house in the first picture. Pictures were taken by wading through 12" of blown in fiberglass and sticking the camera at arms length through a 8"x12" access hole hacked in the old roof in the main attic, it would be VERY difficult to get a head in there for direct observation.
My question relates to the interrupted rafters to the right, I just can't visualize what's happening at this point. Clearly the load inboard of the junction with the hip rafters is being carried down to the former exterior wall of the main structure, but those "cut" rafter ends have to be supported, a single 2x12" seems small to act as a beam to carry the load,and in any case the rafter attachment seems insufficient to do so
Or, maybe my visualization of the geometry is getting turned around by my limited vantage point?
Can anyone point me to an illustration of this arrangement?
- Thanks
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