Peek Roof Line Dormer

The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer.

Peek roof line dormer.

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. Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home.

The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley. It can be built with rafters that run from the walls and meet at a raised center ridge to form a peak or gable above two opposite walls.

The gable dormer is the most common type. Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it. Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer. Or with prebuilt trusses.

Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails. Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration. A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line.