Hip And Valley Roof Construction

The hip and valley roof is similar to the gable and valley except the roof ends slope inward.

Hip and valley roof construction.

Here roofs are constructed with an angle of 90 degrees. A hip and valley roof may be part of an irregular structure. A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces. While hip roofs are stronger and more wind resistant they can be prone to leaks due to the increased level of joins required so care must be taken to provide proper water protection at all joints.

A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. You can combine gable and hip designs with a cross footprint home as well. Such buildings may have more than four hips in the roofs and they form valleys at the inside corners. They are almost always at the same pitch or slope which makes them symmetrical about the centerlines.

Now draw the centerlines for all rectangles that are formed inside. Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. First of all you need to design the layout of building. Hip and valley roof framing is no so complex as compared to hip roof framing procedures.

Broken hip and valley roof are formed on an l shaped building when the two sides are different widths. Now outline the biggest rectangle inside the building layout. 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.