489 78 kb my business partner and i recently added a large screened in porch with a gable roof onto a client s home.
How to join two gable roofs together.
Building an addition on a house requires connecting two roofs whether the new space is a wing of living areas or a carport.
A gable roof is fairly simple geometrically but when two gable roof lines intersect the geometry gets more complicated.
Some architectural styles however place two gable roofs side by side.
When adding a new gabled roof addition to your home you will need to find a way of joining the two roofs together.
There are many roof styles but the most common are gable which slopes.
A shingle style popular in the late 1800s has front facing gables on either end of a basic gable peak.
The porch joined the house at right.
The framing required at the.
Most gable roofs are simple with a center peak and two sloping sides.
How to frame join two gable roof lines.
Called tying in this helps to weatherproof and strengthen the joint.
Called tying in this helps to weatherproof and strengthen the joint.
In this video i show you how you can intersect two roofs in archicad this technique can be used for example when you want to design a cross gable roof.