A jerkinhead roof may also be called a jerkin head roof a half hipped roof a clipped gable or even a jerkinhead gable.
Traditional roof styles.
Intricate roofs have many parts that incorporate several of the basic roof designs such as a gable roof sitting atop a gambrel or variations of the gable valley roof design using one or a variety of different types of roof trusses also see our very detailed diagrams showing the different parts of a roof truss.
With our traditional roof style leaves snow and debris may not drain as easily or as quickly as.
List of commercially available roofing.
It makes sense then that a gable style roof is basically one side up and the other side down similar to the roof on a traditional dog house.
Also different architectural styles will use the same type of roof.
Shallow roofs simple corrugated metal plastic or asbestos flat or shallow roof used on agricultural buildings and warehouses.
Jerkinhead roofs are sometimes found on american bungalows and cottages small american houses from the 1920s and 1930s and assorted victorian house styles.
A swedish sateri roof säteritak in swedish is hipped and pent hipped with two layers of eaves rounded pyramidal roof on a charchala style temple in india.
A twisted church tower roof.
This is a traditional roof form.
This roof style is reliable and durable offering longevity to your investment.
Roofing contractors love gable roofs because gable shape entails covering only two flat surfaces without any hips or valleys which means that virtually any type of roofing material can be used.