Roofing terminology may be difficult to understand unless you are a builder or roofer.
Where roof ends.
A purpose designed tile that covers the ridge apex of a pitched roof.
A few definitions may make it easier for you to communicate with roofers.
A composite decking made of solid materials it resembles real wood and particularly strong and stable for bearing heavy load.
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.
A gable roof with its end parapet walls below extended slightly upwards and shaped to resemble steps.
Terms are used to break down the various areas of a roof and a rake is one of many roof sections.
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.
The triangular sloping surface formed by hips that meet at a roof s ridge is called a hip end.
The ridge is the peak where two sloped roof sections meet.
The degree of such an angle is referred to as the hip bevel.
A hip roof is a roof where the ends are also sloped.
Part of a roof s frame a ridge board runs horizontally along the peak of a sloped roof.
The sloped side of a roof with a peaked top.
See also roof pitch crow stepped corbie stepped stepped gable.
A frame half hipped clipped gable.
Essentially the spine of a conventional stick framed roof the ridge board is sandwiched between the meeting ends of the roof rafters.
The hip is the external angle at which adjacent sloping sides of a roof meet.
Cornice the wood or metal finishing at ends or edges.
It is a waterproofing layer made of regular felt stacked above the solid.
Hip roof also called hipped roof roof that slopes upward from all sides of a structure having no vertical ends.
The rake is not exactly on the roof.
The gable end is replaced by a hip end.
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.
Sloped diagonal ridge between 2 sections of roof is called the hip ridge.
Parts of a roof.
The highest point of a pitched roof that receives the head of the spars also called rafters or common rafters.
Hip end a sloping end to a pitched roof which is covered with slates or tiles.
Hip roofs have no large flat or slab sided ends to catch wind and are inherently much more stable than gable roofs.
It is a term that describes the sloped sides of a gable end.
Also notice that a hip roof still has a ridge and eaves as do all peaked roofs.
