Hip Roof With A Flat Top

A hip roof or a hipped roof is a style of roofing that slopes downwards from all sides to the walls and hence has no vertical sides.

Hip roof with a flat top.

The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof. A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable wall at the top and hipped lower down. A combination of a gable and a hip roof pitched roof without changes to the walls with the hipped part at the top and the gable section lower down. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid.

Flat roofs are easier to construct than pitched roofs and require fewer building materials keeping costs down. The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof. The opposite arrangement to the half hipped roof. A gable roof is placed at the top of a hip roof for more space and enhanced aesthetic appeal.

The rafters that run from the long side walls to the ridge are called common rafters the rafters near the ends that meet at the hip rafters are called. This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period. A standard rectangular hip roof has a horizontal top beam or board called a ridge that forms the peak of the roof at each end of the ridge two sloping boards angle out and down to the corners of the building. A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features.

Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A hip roof has slopes on all four sides. These are called hip rafters. Dutch gable gablet.