Recently while working on a beautiful Tudor home in
the hills outside Medford, Oregon, I had the opportu -
nity to cut the roof shown above, and in plan, at right
(see Figure 1). From this roof plan, you'll notice the
main roof is four large Versa-Lam hip beams converging to a
near peak, with three smaller gable sections and supported val -
leys hanging from them.
This project contained every possible type of supported valley
— a valley-to-hip (valley #1 on roof framing plan), a valley-tovalley
(valley #2), and a "disappearing" valley (valley #3). My goal
in this article is to explain how to calculate, lay out, and stack
these