Traditional Pitched Roof House

The most commonly used roof pitches fall in a range between 4 12 and 9 12.

Traditional pitched roof house.

It should come as no wonder then that these are experiencing a serious comeback right now. Pitches above 9 12 are very highly angled and are designated steep slope roofs. Mono pitched roofs pitched here means a roof plane rather than a slope and implies it is not a flat roof mono pitched roof shed skillion lean to roof. Robinson architects designed this australian house.

The two basic construction methods of pitched roofs are. A traditional method of cutting timber on site and building up the roof using rafters joists purlins ridge. Think of a classic addams family haunted house with its soaring peaks and you have a picture of a high pitched roof. When you ask a child to draw a house you re likely to get a similar image across cultures.

A low slope roof is the perfect candidate for a standing seam panel roof adds papania and indeed standing seam is the traditional choice for porches as well as on low pitched modern style houses. Walls a prominent front door and most notably a pitched roof. Roofs on victorian era houses were often sharply angled with a steep pitch. A roof with one slope historically attached to a taller wall.

Pitched roofs come in a variety of styles such as gable cross gable and hipped all of which are sloped to different degrees. Regardless of how new or modern a house is there is a good chance that it will be topped off with a flat roof now but if you can t picture how great they look we. This pitch might be as low as 1 12. Photography by nic granleese.

Prefabricated trusses which are delivered to site and erected. The sloped roof on this modern house provide shade during the day and helps to direct rain water into the containers at the back of the house. This is one of the rare pitches where the numerator is greater than the denominator with a slope as high as 18 12. Pitches lower than 4 12 have a slight angle and they are defined as low slope roofs.

Visually this roof appears flat. Flat roofs have no slope and are available in built up single ply. Pitches of less than 2 12 are considered flat roofs even though they may be very slightly angled. Dormers contain a window that projects vertically from a traditional pitched roof creating an extended window in the roof.

The sloped roofs on this wood clad modern home promote excellent drainage and open up the house to allow to take.