Half Pitched Roof Designs

Skillion roofs are mostly used for home additions sheds and porches.

Half pitched roof designs.

Dutch gable gablet. It is a single sloping roof usually attached to a taller wall. When choosing roofing to create a roof you need to use a simple rule the denser the structure of the roofing material the smaller the angle of slope of the pitched roof. A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable wall at the top and hipped lower down.

Pent roofs are very much like an awning for lower floors designed to keep precipitation at that level away from the house. If you take into account the angle of inclination of the roof slope when choosing a material you will be able to get a durable and strong construction ready to withstand. Skillion is also referred to as a shed roof or lean to. A pent roof can refer to any roof type that is below and detached from the top roof.

While this article focuses on configurations we also have a very cool set of illustrations showcasing the different parts anatomy of roof trusses. A half hipped roof is almost identical to a simple hip roof design but instead the two sides of the roof are shortened creating eaves at the either side of the house. Previously with saw tooth design under mono pitch style we saw detached roof slopes that were lower than the highest roof. The opposite arrangement to the half hipped roof.

It can be thought of as half of a pitched roof or as a more angled flat roof.