Gable roof in a nutshell.
Hipped roof attic.
Not everyone likes the appearance of these dormers but for those who can live with it it.
Use separate hip roofs on homes with different wings.
The line where the two roofs meet is called a valley.
Similar to a cross gable roof.
We are having increasing success with obtaining planning permission for adding a dormer to the side of a hipped roof.
If insulation is stuffed between the rafters i understand the risks you describe with the sheeting damage because of possibility of trapped moistures as the rafters are attached to the hip ridge that won t allow venting.
The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.
The sides come together at the top to form a simple ridge.
In the super hot dry climate of phoenix it s much more important to deal with the roof attic than to deal with the walls so i want to get this right potentially net zero at some point.
Am building a 10 x10 closet in attic under a hip ridge.
A hip roof or a hipped roof is a style of roofing that slopes downwards from all sides to the walls and hence has no vertical sides.
The most common type of a hip roof.
It has a polygon on two sides and a triangle on two other sides.
This is small enough that the roof is almost a pyramid.
By comparison a gable roof is a type of roof design where two sides slope downward toward the walls and the other two sides include walls that extend from the bottom of.
8 pitch roof 2 6 rafters 1 2 plywood sheeting.
Types of hip roofs.
I m going to be building a small house in phoenix az that must have a hip roof.