Peek Roof Line Dormer

Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home.

Peek roof line dormer. Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare. Or with prebuilt trusses. The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer. Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration.

A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall. A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line. It can be built with rafters that run from the walls and meet at a raised center ridge to form a peak or gable above two opposite walls. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails.

Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. The gable dormer is the most common type. It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath.

The 12 12 roof pitch is also known as a square pitch roof since a 90 degree angle is formed at the peak of such roofs. The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley.