Height Above Plate HAP Hip Rafter Calculator

Strong Built Establishments Builders

SBE Builders is a commercial and residential framing contractor located in Discovery Bay California. Our Systematic Construction Logic produces Strong Built Establishments. E-Defense stands for Earthquake-Defense. Is your building ready for the next Earthquake?

Height Above Plate Hip Rafter Calculator
- With Equal or Unequal Pitchs
H.A.P. v1.0

	Major Pitch

	Minor Pitch

	Major Pitch Rafter Seat Cut Length

	Major Pitch Rafter Material Depth

	Hip Width

	Hip Depth

	Eave Angle For Hip

results are show below in the IFrame window

This height above plate rafter script - calculator will return the H.A.P. for different sizes of rafters with equal or unequal pitchs. The script also returns passed or failed for the D/4 and 1/3 rule for rafter bearing above the plate line.

hap.pl source code for perl script that generates these rafter calculations

HAP rafter table for all material sizes and pitches

SBE Builders
5305 Laguna Ct.
Discovery Bay, California 94505
(925) 634-6022 • Fax: (925) 634-6022

Commercial & Residential Framing Contractor
Build it Green Framing Contractor
American Carpenter and Builder
Licensed Building Contractor
CA LIC.# 546126

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