Where Roof Ends

The gable end is replaced by a hip end.

Where roof ends.

See also roof pitch crow stepped corbie stepped stepped gable. Parts of a roof. A hip roof is self bracing requiring less diagonal bracing than a gable roof hip roofs are thus much more resistant to wind damage than gable roofs. A hip roof is a roof where the ends are also sloped.

A combination of a gable and a hip roof pitched roof without changes to the walls with the hipped part at the top and the gable section lower down. The rake is not exactly on the roof. A composite decking made of solid materials it resembles real wood and particularly strong and stable for bearing heavy load. The triangular sloping surface formed by hips that meet at a roof s ridge is called a hip end.

Essentially the spine of a conventional stick framed roof the ridge board is sandwiched between the meeting ends of the roof rafters. A gable roof with its end parapet walls below extended slightly upwards and shaped to resemble steps. The sloped side of a roof with a peaked top. The highest point of a pitched roof that receives the head of the spars also called rafters or common rafters.

Terms are used to break down the various areas of a roof and a rake is one of many roof sections. Margin the exposed area of a slate or tile usually the minimum is quoted by the manufacturer supplier and may vary for a given slate tile depending on slope of the roof and exposure although a different meaning the measurement is the same as the gauge. The degree of such an angle is referred to as the hip bevel. A frame half hipped clipped gable.

Sloped diagonal ridge between 2 sections of roof is called the hip ridge. Hip roof also called hipped roof roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure having no vertical ends. A few definitions may make it easier for you to communicate with roofers. Hip end a sloping end to a pitched roof which is covered with slates or tiles.

Part of a roof s frame a ridge board runs horizontally along the peak of a sloped roof. Cornice the wood or metal finishing at ends or edges. The ridge is the peak where two sloped roof sections meet. A purpose designed tile that covers the ridge apex of a pitched roof.

The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a roof meet. It is a term that describes the sloped sides of a gable end. Built up roof a low slope or flat seeming roof covered with alternating layers of roofing felt and hot mopped asphalt and topped off with a layer of gravel. Also notice that a hip roof still has a ridge and eaves as do all peaked roofs.

Hip roofs have no large flat or slab sided ends to catch wind and are inherently much more stable than gable roofs. Roofing terminology may be difficult to understand unless you are a builder or roofer.