Truss the truss is a framework comprised of wooden beams that helps to support the roof.
Parts of a tile roof.
Increasingly popular with designers architects and home buyers a flat tile roof offers a crisp clean appearance that perfectly complements both traditional and modern architecture.
It resembles real wood and particularly strong and stable for bearing heavy load.
A composite decking made of solid materials.
Roofs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes but you only need to know a handful of terms to describe their essential architectural features.
The architectural parts of a pitched roof.
It is flat but pitched or on an angle.
Also known as a fascia.
Hip this is an external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
Flat concrete roof tiles refer to a variety of profiles completely lacking in any barrels or rolls.
Usually made from 1 2 inch plywood the decking closes and reinforces the roof structure and provides a nailbed for the shingles.
Also known as a fascia.
These are the parts of a house s roof.
The v cut angle along the junction of two slopes of a roof.
The rafters and trusses are connected to the ridge board for a cohesive framework.
Roof edge or eaves edge all the boards running along the edge of the roof or eaves.
Decking or sheathing usually made from 1 2 inch plywood the decking closes and reinforces the roof structure and provides a nailbed for the shingles.
A horizontal timber or metal resting at the peak of the roof.
All the boards running along the edge of the roof or eaves.
Rafters these are wooden beams that run from the top of the roof to the bottom.