A roof cricket is a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof.
Roof crickets and saddles.
The roof cricket is normally the same pitch as the rest of the roof but not always.
Roof crickets are found on the high side of a chimney or when one roof meets another.
This beam will provide the backbone for the cricket or saddle.
Skylights installed per code are the only exception.
Smaller crickets are covered with metal flashing and larger ones can be covered with the same material as the rest of the roof.
Crickets are also often referred to as saddles in this context.
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Installing a roof cricket.
The cricket or saddle basically rests on top of the house roof to visually extend the porch roof gracefully into the house roof.
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.
You will need to use compound miter cuts for the cricket rafters.