Peek Roof Line Dormer

Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails.

Peek roof line dormer.

Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line. The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story.

The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. 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. A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall. Running trim gable decoration.

Or with prebuilt trusses. 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. 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. Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration. The gable dormer is the most common type.