The Mad Housers

Construction - Metric - Hut - Gables and Trusses

Notes

The gables are the most intricate piece of carpentry of the hut; if you're going to be building many huts, we strongly recommend building a jig to standardize and simplify the process. The plywood for skinning the gables is from the 1/2 sheet plywood left over from the back panel.

To make two gables, cut a 600x1800 rectangle, then cut an isosceles triangle with the 1800mm side as the bae. This'll create two 600x900 right triangles that can be turned into the second gable.

Similarly, two or more trusses can be made from a single piece fo stud by sharing along a cut.