Parts Of A Tile Roof

These are the parts of a house s roof.

Parts of a tile roof.

Increasingly popular with designers architects and home buyers a flat tile roof offers a crisp clean appearance that perfectly complements both traditional and modern architecture. It is flat but pitched or on an angle. Roofs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes but you only need to know a handful of terms to describe their essential architectural features. Hip this is an external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Usually made from 1 2 inch plywood the decking closes and reinforces the roof structure and provides a nailbed for the shingles. The v cut angle along the junction of two slopes of a roof. Roof edge or eaves edge all the boards running along the edge of the roof or eaves. It resembles real wood and particularly strong and stable for bearing heavy load.

Also known as a fascia. All the boards running along the edge of the roof or eaves. The rafters and trusses are connected to the ridge board for a cohesive framework. Decking or sheathing usually made from 1 2 inch plywood the decking closes and reinforces the roof structure and provides a nailbed for the shingles.

A horizontal timber or metal resting at the peak of the roof. The rafters when combined together help to form the truss. A composite decking made of solid materials. Truss the truss is a framework comprised of wooden beams that helps to support the roof.

This is the surface of the roof. Rafters these are wooden beams that run from the top of the roof to the bottom. The space under the roof.