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About this range
Verandah rafters — bullnose, concave, convex and Olde Gothic
Four rafter profiles, cut in our Bayswater workshop and delivered Australia-wide, each at $159.60. Hip and valley rafters are also available for verandahs that turn a corner.
The rafter is what gives a verandah its shape, and the four profiles are not interchangeable — a bullnose reads completely differently to an Olde Gothic, and on a period home the right one is usually whichever the house was built with. If you are not sure which you have, send a photograph.
The curve does more than look correct. A curved verandah roof throws sun off the wall behind it rather than holding it, which is why rooms behind a bullnose verandah stay surprisingly cool even on notoriously hot Australian summer days. It is the reason the profile became standard on Australian houses in the first place.
Rafters are ordered with verandah posts and corner brackets as a set more often than on their own. Paint before installation — see the care instructions.
Send us a photograph, or call the workshop on (03) 9720 7266.
Bullnose verandah rafters are also known as hockey stick rafters. Concave and convex profiles are cut to your radius.
Sizes, lengths and radius
All four profiles are made from LOSP treated pine in three standard sections, 90 x 42 mm, 120 x 42 mm and 140 x 42 mm, and are cut to any length and any radius of curve to suit the roll of your roofing. Other species and sizes are made on request. Because each rafter is cut to the radius you give us, a replacement for a single rotted rafter is reproduced to the originals so the roof line stays true.
Bullnose verandah kits, hip and valley rafters
What is sold as a bullnose verandah kit is, in timber terms, a set of curved rafters cut to one radius, with the posts, corner brackets and fretwork that go with them; the roofing is rolled to the same curve. A verandah that turns a corner needs hip and valley rafters as well as the common ones, so tell us how many corners the verandah has. The bullnose, concave, convex and Olde Gothic (ogee) rafters are each $159.60.
How to measure and order
Our rafters how-to-measure guide (PDF) shows what to measure on an existing verandah roof. If the rafters are already gone, a photograph of the house and the span between the wall and the beam is enough to start a quote. Tell us the profile (the bullnose is the one the trade calls a hockey stick rafter), the section you want from 90, 120 or 140 mm, the number of rafters and the radius if you know it. Rafters are made to order in Bayswater, usually in 2 to 3 weeks and up to 4, and delivered Australia-wide.