Gable Roof Structure Terminology

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 roof structure terminology.

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 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 terms pitch and slope are simply two different ways of expressing the same measurement. A gambrel roof usually contains a gable at each end just like a standard gable roof.

Gable a gable roof has a ridge at the center and slopes in two directions. 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. Trim that goes on this part of a roof is called gable or rake trim. These are short spars that run from a hip to the eves or from a ridge to a valley.

Hip the hip roof has four sloping sides. We use the term gable trim. A hip roof is a roof where the ends are also sloped. These hip rafters run at a 45 angle from each corner of the building to the ridge.

Hip roof parts. It contains no gables. The same roof has a 4 12 or 1 3 pitch. The upper portion of a sidewall that comes to a triangular point at the ridge of a sloping roof.

It is the form most commonly used by the navy. A type of roof containing sloping planes of the same pitch on each side of the ridge. Contains a gable at each end. The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper often approaching vertical.

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. It is the strongest type of roof because it is braced by four hip rafters. Gable the triangular end of a housed formed at the end of a pitched roof from eaves level to apex.

Triangular upper part of wall at the end of a ridge roof hipped roof. A term used to describe a pitched roof the ends of which are also sloped. Mansard roof a type of roof containing two sloping planes of different pitch on each of four sides. Gable ridged dual pitched peaked saddle pack saddle saddleback span roof.

The gable end is replaced by a hip end. A bearing timber forming part of a suspended timber floor to which the. 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.

A valley is an inward joint where two sloping roofs meet. The unseen parts of your roof.