Hipped Gable Roof Construction

Also known as a pyramid roof also known as a pyramid roof box gable roof a type of hip roof where each side includes two different sloping angles with the lower angle much steeper than the upper angle.

Hipped gable roof construction. Open gable roof a hip roof on a square structure where all sides join to form a single peak. A hip roof has roof panels on all four sides while a gable roof has only two. Tie down fixings tie down fixings are used to resist uplift and shear forces lateral loads in floor framing wall framing and roof framing. It is basically a gable roof with half of the hipped roof above stuck on each end.

Hip roofs are more complicated and labor intensive to build. Even if the roof square footage works out to be the same between a gable and a hip roof a contractor will likely spend more time framing a hip roof. Parts of a roof the main structural parts of a roof are ceiling joists ridge board jack rafter hip rafter common rafters creeper rafters raking plates out riggers and noggings or last rafter overhang. The gable roof also known as a pitched or peaked roof is ideal for ease of snow removal but is prone to lifting in high winds and needs bracing if it s used in areas that have high winds and hurricanes.

A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces. A hip roof hip roof or hipped roof is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope. So it is costly. Gable roofs are easier and less expensive to build.

To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length. They are almost always at the same pitch or slope which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. We ll assume the new length of the roof below is 3 4 metres.