Hip Roof With A Flat Top

Flat roofs are easier to construct than pitched roofs and require fewer building materials keeping costs down.

Hip roof with a flat top.

A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable wall at the top and hipped lower down. The rafters that run from the long side walls to the ridge are called common rafters the rafters near the ends that meet at the hip rafters are called. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features.

Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A combination of a gable and a hip roof pitched roof without changes to the walls with the hipped part at the top and the gable section lower down. A gable roof is placed at the top of a hip roof for more space and enhanced aesthetic appeal. This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period.

The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof. A hip roof or a hipped roof is a style of roofing that slopes downwards from all sides to the walls and hence has no vertical sides. The sides are all equal length and come together at the top to form a ridge. 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 although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak.

The opposite arrangement to the half hipped roof. A hip roof has slopes on all four sides. These are called hip rafters. A standard rectangular hip roof has a horizontal top beam or board called a ridge that forms the peak of the roof at each end of the ridge two sloping boards angle out and down to the corners of the building.