Half Hip Roof Construction

A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features.

Half hip roof construction.

It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features. A half hip clipped gable or jerkin head roof has a gable but the upper point of the gable is replaced by a small hip squaring off the top of the gable. N s or e w for a gable roof. To create an automatic half hip roof.

The picture below shows the same roof extended length ways with the addition of a ridge. The reverse hybrid of a hipped and a gable roof. Minus ridge thickness to allow for ridge becoming pole plate roof peak will be slightly higher ridge thick must be same. A half hip jerkinhead or clipped gable roof is usually characterized by a gable but the upper points of the gable are instead replaced by a small hip.

See above dutch gable gablet. A hipped roof is sloped in two pairs of directions e g. N s and e w compared to the one pair of direction e g. For that reason we can use the same common rafters all the way around it.

One of the benefits of a half hip roof is that it may accommodate a gutter that can be easily fixed all around the house. A hybrid of a gable and a hipped roof. It is basically a gable roof with half of the hipped roof above stuck on each end. The lower edge of the half hip may have a gutter which leads back on to the remainder of the roof on one or both sides.

Enter the extension wall length into wall length and double the extension wall width then minus ridge thickness into the wall width entries. Open a chief architect plan in which you would like to create a half hip roof. The construction of half hip roofs can take a number of forms and shapes depending on the architectural designs of the structure in question as well as the overall looks of the building as desired by the owner. In this example a simple 30 x 40 building with 108 1 8 ceiling height is used.

The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof. Most of the half hip roof construction processes will usually feature a triangular face the sloping face hip rafters as well as the. A type of japanese roof construction. Hipped roofs are rarely square like the example above.