Original poster 3 points 7 years ago.
How to build a cone roof.
To make a cone with a small bottom cut out a larger triangle wedge.
Screw the ceiling hook into the wooden disk until it comes out the other side.
For a conical roof a workable manual construction procedure is as follows.
Making a new house with a circular wood roof in queens ny.
Nail along the edges of the osb or plywood driving the nails into the rafters every 8 inches 20 cm with 8d common nails.
To the right is a side view of the blocks stacked up to make a roof.
Use a standard hip and ridge shingle to complete the hip joints.
You will notice that if you stack up 3a 3b and 3c you will get a roof that will fit a 3 outside diameter tower you will also notice that the width of the roof actually measures 4 3 16 which will make the roof jut out around the outside of the 3 tower.
Sheet metal cone calculator.
View the cone instructions below to learn how to manually layout the flat pattern for a truncated cone in single or multiple gore sections.
It allows you to determine either the size of raw material needed or the number of gore sections to fit on your available material.
Use scissors or a precision knife to cut out your wedge as straight as possible.
Cut the triangle wedge out of the circle.
Place the wooden ball in the center of your copper cone with the pilot hole facing the top of the copper cone.
Find the pixel pattern either from the reference image above which goes up to diameter 18 or by.
Arrange your pine cones on the sheet a couple inches apart and bake at 350 degrees for an hour and then turn the pine cones over and bake for another hour.
Nail osb or plywood onto the rafters to enclose the roof.
Making a new house with a circular wood roof in queens ny.
Place it on top of the copper cone and continue to screw until it reaches the wooden ball on the inside.
If you run into any cutting mishaps you will probably need to start over again.
How to build a cone roof for a specific build of mine that won t fit anywhere else.
Choose the cone s diameter and center.
Place the osb or plywood on the top portion of the rafters and make sure that the edges run flush.
Then apply shingles to the flat areas cutting at the hips or joints.
If you re working with a flat sided cone roof you can use the standard hip and ridge installation method.
If you want the roof to come to a sharper point it should have an odd diameter.
As stated in the description of the first picture you can use your own dimensions so it would fit on any build that you would like to build it onto.
Snap vertical chalk lines from the cone tip to the eave center on each of the flat sides.
