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Residential roof construction details.
Building practices is intended to guide builders and.
Flat roof designs are quite common in residential buildings.
There is no great architectural splendour in these roofs.
There are ridges eaves hips abutments and the centerline of the ridge.
First of all there are many details to pitched roof types that can make construction more complex.
You can go for an extended roof that covers a few feet outside the external walls of the house.
Some roofs have some of these aspects while other roofs may have all of these features.
Piece by piece rafter roof construction however is still the more common construction method for many buildings.
Roofs are framed in five basic designs.
Such roofs are built with mostly timber take a number of different shapes and are covered with a variety of materials.
Shed gable hip gambrel and mansard.
Construction details for houses are given in a series of drawings with accompanying text which show the.
Simple roofs such as a shed or the common gable are fairly easy to construct even without plans if you understand the basics and a little geometry.