Framing A Round Turret Roof

For builder rick arnold taking a little more time to understand the framing was all he needed to get started on a successful project.

Framing a round turret roof.

Standing seam roofing panels are installed on a turret roof in northern vermont by dusty morrits left and dalton haskins right of evergreen roofing based in colchester vt. The turret projects from the front elevation and encloses a stairwell with semicircular mid level landings between floors. My main questions is what materials to use and framing methods. Please click the picture to see the large or full size photo.

This is for a turret on the end of the house. Let s start this with the quintessential modern interpretation of a classic castle. Building a circular turret from stone or other masonry material is fairly easy but most homes in the united states have a wooden frame of 2 by 4s or 2 by 6s. Use this opportunity to see some images to add your collection look at the picture these are beautiful photos.

In this story i ll discuss how we applied the membrane in the valley made the custom angle cuts on the metal roofing fabricated the seams for this specialized. Perhaps the following data that we have add as well you need. If you think this collection is useful to you or maybe your. We hope you can vote them.

The half round tower opens into the first and second floors on the inside but it becomes full round construction where it penetrates the roof. To create truly circular walls with this type of construction is very complicated. The turret itself is located as the focal point of the design in the uppermost middle corner and is topped with large glass fronts to create a. The room will start at the first floor level and continue to be round at and through the second floor level and then protrude through the roof as a completely round turret.

1 should i set the foundation to match the room or cantilever. In this article i ll explain how i tackled this complicated piece of framing. Learn rick s method for framing an octagonal turret roof.