Complete rafter tables with step-by-step instructions make it easy to frame any gable, hip, shed, gambrel, or gazebo roof—including the irregular or "bastard" hip roofs for which rafter tables have never been available.

Table of Contents
Introduction to Roof Framing; Introduction to Irregular or "Bastard" Hip Roof; Rafter Tables for Regular Equal Pitch Roofs; Rafter Tables for Regular Hip Roofs (non 45 degrees); Rafter Tables for Polygon Roofs; Drawing an Ellipse; Finding the Radius of an Arch; Framing a Roof with a Non-Centered Ridge; Universal Formulas and Helpful Math; Basic Trigonometry; Appendix.