Thursday, February 5, 2015

Roof Styles



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 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, 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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