Thursday, February 5, 2015

Roof Styles





















Gable Roof- A roof with two sloping sides, forming a triangle at one or both ends.



Gambrel Roof- A roof with two angles of slope on each of the two sides, the lower slope steeper than the upper slope



Hip Roof- All four sides of this roof slope inward to meet at a peak, as here, or a ridge.



Saltbox Roof- A variation of the gable roof, originally created when a low lean-to addition was built onto the back wall of a house.



Mansard Roof-  All four sides of this roof have two slopes, the lower four steeper than the upper four.



Shed Roof- A simple, one-slope roof; also called a lean to roof.

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