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.
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.
Trim that goes on this part of a roof is called gable or rake trim.
The unseen parts of your roof.
A valley is an inward joint where two sloping roofs meet.
Tie down fixings tie down fixings are used to resist uplift and shear forces lateral loads in floor framing wall framing and roof framing.
So far we ve covered the parts.
A gambrel roof usually contains a gable at each end just like a standard gable roof.
Hip the hip roof has four sloping sides.
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.
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.
Gable ridged dual pitched peaked saddle pack saddle saddleback span roof.
It is the form most commonly used by the navy.
A hip roof is a roof where the ends are also sloped.
The upper portion of a sidewall that comes to a triangular point at the ridge of a sloping roof.
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.
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.
A bearing timber forming part of a suspended timber floor to which the.
Hip roof parts.
Contains a gable at each end.
We use the term gable trim.
The gable end is replaced by a hip end.
A type of roof containing sloping planes of the same pitch on each side of the ridge.
The lower plane has a much steeper pitch than the upper often approaching vertical.
These are short spars that run from a hip to the eves or from a ridge to a valley.
Triangular upper part of wall at the end of a ridge roof hipped roof.
Putting the 2 roof types together.
A term used to describe a pitched roof the ends of which are also sloped.
It contains no gables.
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.
The terms pitch and slope are simply two different ways of expressing the same measurement.
The same roof has a 4 12 or 1 3 pitch.
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.
