Peek Roof Line Dormer

Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home.

Peek roof line dormer.

Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer. Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. Running trim gable decoration.

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. The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration. Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare.

Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley. Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails. A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall.

A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line. Or with prebuilt trusses. It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath.