Builders often choose this shape when they need to roof a building that s round or nearly round.
Roof flat on all sides.
Although a hip roof is not gabled it may have dormers or connecting wings with gables.
A v shaped roof resembling an open book.
Bonnet roof styles don t just cap off a home they often lend spaces covered patios and porches via an extended overhand.
A kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an obtuse.
A raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double pitched roof with its own roof running parallel with the main roof butterfly roof v roof london roof.
Octagon roofs have eight sides as the term implies.
But such a low slope holds snow and water much longer than a steeply pitched roof and therefore needs a very different material to stay watertight.
Flat roofing is not actually flat.
It has a very low slope between 1 4 to 1 2 inch per foot so that it drains water.
Instead of dealing with the awkward fractions that another shape might require they simply divide 360 degrees into half then half again then half a final time winding up with the 22 1 2 degree angle that s needed to build an eight sided roof.
A bonnet roof boasts a double slope on all four sides with the lower slope less steep than the upper slope.
A hip or hipped roof slopes down to the eaves on all four sides forming a horizontal ridge a roofer will usually put a vent along the top of this ridge.
A roof with a monitor.