Hipped Gable Roof Construction

A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces.

Hipped gable roof construction.

A hip roof hip roof or hipped roof is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope. A hip roof has roof panels on all four sides while a gable roof has only two. So it is costly. We ll assume the new length of the roof below is 3 4 metres.

Even if the roof square footage works out to be the same between a gable and a hip roof a contractor will likely spend more time framing a hip roof. Open gable roof a hip roof on a square structure where all sides join to form a single peak. For that reason we can use the same common rafters all the way around it. Hip roofs are more complicated and labor intensive to build.

Tie down fixings tie down fixings are used to resist uplift and shear forces lateral loads in floor framing wall framing and roof framing. Gable roofs are easier and less expensive to build. They are almost always at the same pitch or slope which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines. To calculate the length of a ridge in a hipped roof you simply subtract the width away from the length.

It is basically a gable roof with half of the hipped roof above stuck on each end. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. The gable roof also known as a pitched or peaked roof is ideal for ease of snow removal but is prone to lifting in high winds and needs bracing if it s used in areas that have high winds and hurricanes. Hip roofs on houses could have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones.