Peek Roof Line Dormer

Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story.

Peek roof line dormer.

Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare. The gable dormer is the most common type. The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Running trim gable decoration.

Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration. It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath. Or with prebuilt trusses. The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer.

Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it. A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall. Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home. Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer.

It can be built with rafters that run from the walls and meet at a raised center ridge to form a peak or gable above two opposite walls. Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails.