Gable Roof Structure Terminology

Putting the 2 roof types together.

Gable roof structure terminology. Hip the hip roof has four sloping sides. It contains no gables. It is the strongest type of roof because it is braced by four hip rafters. These hip rafters run at a 45 angle from each corner of the building to the ridge.

It is the form most commonly used by the navy. Hip roof parts. The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper often approaching vertical. Trim that goes on this part of a roof is called gable or rake trim.

A frequently used joint in timber framing it includes a male end tenon cut onto the end of one timber that fits into a square cut matching female receptacle mortise. A simple roof design shaped like an inverted v. It is simple in design economical to construct and can be used on any type of structure. Contains a gable at each end.

A gambrel roof usually contains a gable at each end just like a standard gable roof. A roof s slope is the number of inches it rises for every 12 inches of horizontal run a roof with a 4 in 12 slope rises 4 inches for every 12 inches of horizontal run. Like many timber frame joints it is often locked in place by the addition of hardwood dowels or pegs called trunnels tree nails. A valley is an inward joint where two sloping roofs meet.

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. A type of roof containing sloping planes of the same pitch on each side of the ridge. The upper portion of a sidewall that comes to a triangular point at the ridge of a sloping roof. The unseen parts of your roof.

Triangular upper part of wall at the end of a ridge roof hipped roof. So far we ve covered the 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. Gable ridged dual pitched peaked saddle pack saddle saddleback span roof.

Mansard roof a type of roof containing two sloping planes of different pitch on each of four sides. The terms pitch and slope are simply two different ways of expressing the same measurement. 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. A hip roof is a roof where the ends are also sloped.

A bearing timber forming part of a suspended timber floor to which the. We use the term gable trim. The same roof has a 4 12 or 1 3 pitch. The gable end is replaced by a hip end.

A term used to describe a pitched roof the ends of which are also sloped. Gable a gable roof has a ridge at the center and slopes in two directions.