Hipped Gable Roof Construction

Open gable roof a hip roof on a square structure where all sides join to form a single peak.

Hipped gable roof construction.

Hip roofs on houses could have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. 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. 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. For that reason we can use the same common rafters all the way around it.

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. So it is costly. Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. It is basically a gable roof with half of the hipped roof above stuck on each end.

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. 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. Hip roofs are more complicated and labor intensive to build.

We ll assume the new length of the roof below is 3 4 metres. To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length. A hip roof has roof panels on all four sides while a gable roof has only two. 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.