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.

Peek roof line dormer.

Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration. A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails. Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it.

Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley. The gable dormer is the most common type. Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer.

The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Running trim gable decoration. Or with prebuilt trusses. The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer.

Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. 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. It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath.