MAY JLC 1998
Before I was a custom house builder, I spent 13
years doing remodeling work. It was on a window
replacement job that I first encountered a
bay window. I knew immediately that the roof
framing would be a problem,
because it was not a standard
hip roof. Somehow I got
through the complications of that roof, but I knew that
before the next bay window came along, I would have
to learn to frame a bay roof the way it should be
framed. I had to have a simple, sure-fire method.
There are as many ways to figure roof cuts as there
are saw blades for a circular saw, but