Where Roof Ends

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.

Where roof ends.

A purpose designed tile that covers the ridge apex of a pitched roof. 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. The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a roof meet. Sloped diagonal ridge between 2 sections of roof is called the hip ridge.

Part of a roof s frame a ridge board runs horizontally along the peak of a sloped roof. A hip roof is a roof where the ends are also sloped. It is a waterproofing layer made of regular felt stacked above the solid. The highest point of a pitched roof that receives the head of the spars also called rafters or common rafters.

Hip roofs have no large flat or slab sided ends to catch wind and are inherently much more stable than gable roofs. 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. A composite decking made of solid materials it resembles real wood and particularly strong and stable for bearing heavy load. Terms are used to break down the various areas of a roof and a rake is one of many roof sections.

The ridge is the peak where two sloped roof sections meet. A term used to describe a pitched roof the ends of which are also sloped and meet at an external angle. The sloped side of a roof with a peaked top. Cornice the wood or metal finishing at ends or edges.

A few definitions may make it easier for you to communicate with roofers. It is a term that describes the sloped sides of a gable end. The rake is not exactly on the roof. Parts of a roof.

Hip roof also called hipped roof roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure having no vertical ends. The gable end is replaced by a hip end. See also roof pitch crow stepped corbie stepped stepped gable. Hip end a sloping end to a pitched roof which is covered with slates or tiles.

Also notice that a hip roof still has a ridge and eaves as do all peaked roofs. A horizontal timber or metal resting at the peak of the roof the rafters and trusses are connected to the ridge board for a cohesive framework. Essentially the spine of a conventional stick framed roof the ridge board is sandwiched between the meeting ends of the roof rafters. Roofing terminology may be difficult to understand unless you are a builder or roofer.

The degree of such an angle is referred to as the hip bevel. 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.