Roof Crickets And Saddles

This beam will provide the backbone for the cricket or saddle.

Roof crickets and saddles.

The cricket or saddle basically rests on top of the house roof to visually extend the porch roof gracefully into the house roof. You will need to use compound miter cuts for the cricket rafters. 2x8 sleepers should be nailed to the roof surface to pick up the ends of the rafters. A cricket or saddle is a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof around the high side of a chimney or the transition from one roof area to another the cricket is normally the same pitch as the rest of the roof but not always.

Roof crickets can be covered with metal flashing or with the same material as the rest of the roof. Skylights installed per code are the only exception. Here s the code citation. The roof cricket is normally the same pitch as the rest of the roof but not always.

Smaller crickets are covered with metal flashing and larger ones can be covered with the same material as the rest of the roof. A roof cricket is a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof. Installing a roof cricket.