Peek Roof Line Dormer

Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons.

Peek roof line dormer.

Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home. It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails. 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.

Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer. Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley. Running trim gable decoration. The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer.

Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare. Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it.

The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. 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. A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall.