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Gable roof structure terminology.
Gutter a channel usually sheet metal installed along the down slope perimeter of a roof to convey runoff water from the roof to the downpipes.
It contains no gables.
Mansard roof a type of roof containing two sloping planes of different pitch on each of four sides.
The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper often approaching vertical.
It is simple in design economical to construct and can be used on any type of structure.
A bearing timber forming part of a suspended timber floor to which the.
The main structural parts of a roof are ceiling joists ridge board jack rafter hip rafter common rafters creeper rafters raking plates out riggers and noggings or last rafter overhang.
The gable end is replaced by a hip end.
It is the strongest type of roof because it is braced by four hip rafters.
Like many timber frame joints it is often locked in place by the addition of hardwood dowels or pegs called trunnels tree nails.
Putting the 2 roof types together.
Hip roof parts.
Tie down fixings tie down fixings are used to resist uplift and shear forces lateral loads in floor framing wall framing and roof framing.
A gambrel roof usually contains a gable at each end just like a standard gable roof.
The unseen parts of your roof.
We use the term gable trim.
Gable the triangular end of a housed formed at the end of a pitched roof from eaves level to apex.
A valley is an inward joint where two sloping roofs meet.
The result of joining two or more gabled roof sections together forming a t or l shape for the simplest forms or any number of more complex shapes.
Trim that goes on this part of a roof is called gable or rake trim.
These hip rafters run at a 45 angle from each corner of the building to the ridge.
Gable a gable roof has a ridge at the center and slopes in two directions.
The upper portion of a sidewall that comes to a triangular point at the ridge of a sloping roof.
The terms pitch and slope are simply two different ways of expressing the same measurement.
These are short spars that run from a hip to the eves or from a ridge to a valley.
Gable ridged dual pitched peaked saddle pack saddle saddleback span roof.
Contains a gable at each end.
Hip the hip roof has four sloping sides.
A type of roof containing sloping planes of the same pitch on each side of the ridge.
A simple roof design shaped like an inverted v.
A term used to describe a pitched roof the ends of which are also sloped.
Triangular upper part of wall at the end of a ridge roof hipped roof.
The same roof has a 4 12 or 1 3 pitch.
It is the form most commonly used by the navy.
