Peek Roof Line Dormer

The gable dormer is the most common type.

Peek roof line dormer.

A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line. 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. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. 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. The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer. Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home.

Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails. Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. Or with prebuilt trusses.

Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley. A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall. Running trim gable decoration.