Roof Cricket Vs Roof Saddle

Thursday september 12 2019 according to the residential edition of the florida building code r903 2 2 and the international building code ibc the high side of any chimney or other roof penetration that is more than 30 inches wide requires a cricket or saddle.

Roof cricket vs roof saddle.

The cricket or saddle basically rests on top of the house roof to visually extend the porch roof gracefully into the house roof. The hip ridge detail is simple you weave the ridge cap into the field shingles on the cricket saddle dead valley side probably the first three would do but sometimes four or five are needed. What s a cricket they say so i attempt to explain it as well as i could when the owner gets his ipad out and looks up images for roof cricket. The pictures he pulled up is what i normally call a saddle behind a chimney for example though i have heard those called crickets as well.

You will need to use compound miter cuts for the cricket rafters. This beam will provide the backbone for the cricket or saddle. When is a cricket or saddle required on a roof. Nothing and i look like an idiot.

2x8 sleepers should be nailed to the roof surface to pick up the ends of the rafters. Without a cricket or diverter. That way your water tight on that side and still have continuous hip ridge on that outside which is the side most viewable from the ground. You can prevent this from happening by building a roofing cricket sometimes called a saddle.