Peek Roof Line Dormer

The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer.

Peek roof line dormer.

Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails. A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall. Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley. Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home.

A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line. Or with prebuilt trusses. The gable dormer is the most common type. Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons.

Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. 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. The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line.

Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it. 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. Running trim gable decoration.