Rafter to ridge beam connection
Hi All
Can anyone tell me what the standard practice is for attaching rafters to ridge beam on an uncoupled (cathedral) roof?
There is about a 40deg. pitch so the load is certainly pushing into the ridge beam (as oposed to a low pitch which would have much more downward tendancy).
Rafters are to sit against the ridge beam, not on top of it.
The ridge beam cannot be housed out.
The rafters will be birdsmouthed at the wall top plates.
There doesn't appear to be any 'joist hanger' style brackets availble for this purpose (probably because of the many different roof pitches). From what I have seen on old houses they would have just be scew nailed?
Any comments?