Sloped roofs many of which are tied closely to a particular house style or geographic region.
Pictures of different roof lines.
There are various types of roofs but they mainly fall into two categories.
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The saltbox roof has two sides of different lengths which slope outwards from a central ridge.
Flat or low sloped roof.
And flat roofs which are all very similar and mostly found in modern architecture and throughout the southwest.
Also different architectural styles will use the same type of roof.
Intricate roofs have many parts that incorporate several of the basic roof designs such as a gable roof sitting atop a gambrel or variations of the gable valley roof design using one or a variety of different types of roof trusses also see our very detailed diagrams showing the different parts of a roof truss.
In a typical saltbox house one side of the roof covers the top floor of the house while the other side slopes all the way down to the ground floor.
Hip is a slope of a roof with 2 descending lines from the end of a ridge point.
Valleys the inverse of a ridge or lines that appear to go inward on a roof.
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This roof is used in asymmetrical houses where the upper floor doesn t completely overlay the lower.
Usually the hip s 2 end points connect to upper corners of the home.