How To Select Your Roof

There are so many things that you should consider when selecting the type of the roof you want for your house.

You should first consider the design of your house and by this I mean the size, the number of stories and of course the material of the roof. In most cases, the design of your roof will dictate the design of your home, so make sure you take that into consideration. Another thing that you should consider is what you can actually do with a certain type of roof or rather what you can do in it. Flat roofs do not leave enough room for an attic so choose your design wisely.

Now let us expound on the different types of the roofs. One of the most popular roofing designs is whereby you have a sloping roof either on one side or both. There are several types or roofs in these categories with minimum or major differences. One of the types is the Gable Roof.

The Gable roof is one of the simplest roofs to construct and therefore one of the popular roofs you will see around. It is designed with two sloping roof surfaces both of which are of the same size and form a triangle. There are gables at each side and a ridge at the end of the slopes.

The Dormer Roof is a type of a gable roof that is an extension constructed out of the slopping side of the roof so that it can accommodate large vertical windows.

Another type of the gable roof is the Gambrel Roof that has long slopping sides of the roof but has two sections. The upper slop of the roof slopes less steep than the lower side. This feature makes the roof resemble roof of a barn.
Another popular roofing design in the sloping roofs category is the Hipped Roof. Unlike the gable roofs, the hipped roofs do not have gables as all the sides of the roof are sloped. This means there is no vertical ends.

A hip is the end where adjacent sloping surfaces meet at the sides and that why this roof is called the hipped roof. Another feature of the hipped roof is the hip end that is formed by the triangular slopping hips that meets at the ridge.

The Barn Hip Roof is another type of the hipped roofs but all the ends are sloped. The main difference between this type of roofing and the main hipped roof is that its opposite side are longer that the other opposite sides. This feature makes the roof resemble the traditional barns.

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