Roofing how to
A question was asked recently over at the
Steve Dean
forum...how to work out the size of a roof. Normally I would just go
for try and error to get the sections the right size, leading to a lot
of wasted roofing material but after ´thinking about it I came up with
this;
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| Make the tower
(house or whatever..I´ve tested it and it works for all rectangular
buildings) measure from each opposing corner and make a cross shaped
insert. |
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| Mark a point at
the wished height in the middle of the cross piece. Make a mark at the
height of the wall and join the two up. Repeat for all 4 sides. |
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| Lay on a piece of
card (or whatever) and mark from the top of the roof to each outside
corner. Extend these lines to give a bit of roff overhang. If your
building is exactly square, the first piece can be used as a template to
make the other 3 sections..if not just repeat for the remaining
sections. |
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| Add tabs, either
to the inside on the cross piece or on the roof sections and glue on. If
the wall sections/cross piece are thick enough to lay the roof sections
on and just glue, then the tabs can be ignored. The whole thing only
took ten minutes with taking pics but would obviously take longer for a
better looking finish. |
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