Joining Roof Lines

First we should establish the pitch of both roof planes.

Joining roof lines.

Connect a flat roof to a sloped or pitched roof with a ledger board. See also roof pitch crow stepped corbie stepped stepped gable. Where the porch roof extended over the shed roof we installed a 2x6 ridge that ran from the top of the. Valleys the inverse of a ridge or lines that appear to go inward on a roof.

Starting two courses higher than where the new ridge meets the old roof unseal the shingle tabs a thin flat bar or a joint taping knife works well and pop the nails of the overlying course. Hip is a slope of a roof with 2 descending lines from the end of a ridge point. The result of joining two or more gabled roof sections together forming a t or l shape for the simplest forms or any number of more complex shapes. Usually the hip s 2 end points connect to upper corners of the home.

Up from the valley center and cut through the shingles and underlayment. Select the 2 top faces. Remove siding from the house where the new roof will attach to expose rafters or other framing of the old roof. The other is to get the fascias to line up.

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Extend roof along eave 1. A gable roof with its end parapet walls below extended slightly upwards and shaped to resemble steps. To keep the porch roof framing as simple as possible we installed a structural ridge. Joining these two roofs poses two main challenges.

Joining two roofs of different pitches blind valleys simplify framing. After the addition roof is framed and sheathed snap a line on the existing roof shingles 2 in. One is getting the two differently pitched planes to meet at the hip or valley rafter. Draw a couple of attached boxes representing a main building plus a building extension.

The ridge board is the horizontal framing member that defines the roofline in a gable roof. In combination of roof styles a hip will connect to another part of the roof as part of the frame. We ll start with the knowledge that the main roof has an 8 12 pitch. Examples merge roof planes example 1.