Gable Roof Structure Terminology

Like many timber frame joints it is often locked in place by the addition of hardwood dowels or pegs called trunnels tree nails.

Gable roof structure terminology.

It is the strongest type of roof because it is braced by four hip rafters. Trim that goes on this part of a roof is called gable or rake trim. A simple roof design shaped like an inverted v. The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper often approaching vertical.

It contains no gables. 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 term used to describe a pitched roof the ends of which are also sloped. 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.

The unseen parts of your roof. The gable end is replaced by a hip end. A valley is an inward joint where two sloping roofs meet. Hip roof parts.

Contains a gable at each end. Mansard roof a type of roof containing two sloping planes of different pitch on each of four sides. 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. A bearing timber forming part of a suspended timber floor to which the.

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 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. The same roof has a 4 12 or 1 3 pitch. These hip rafters run at a 45 angle from each corner of the building to the ridge.

A type of roof containing sloping planes of the same pitch on each side of the ridge. It is the form most commonly used by the navy. A hip roof is a roof where the ends are also sloped. So far we ve covered the parts.

We use the term gable trim. The terms pitch and slope are simply two different ways of expressing the same measurement. Gable the triangular end of a housed formed at the end of a pitched roof from eaves level to apex. 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 gambrel roof usually contains a gable at each end just like a standard gable roof. 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. It is simple in design economical to construct and can be used on any type of structure.

The upper portion of a sidewall that comes to a triangular point at the ridge of a sloping roof. Triangular upper part of wall at the end of a ridge roof hipped roof.