Basic Carpentry


Life in this country is hard enough with a roof over your head, so we cannot even begin to imagine how difficult it must be to be homeless. Most of us want to have our dream house--in the very near future as possible; it's one of our basic needs, a place for comfort and protection.

Talking about a house, every part of it or its structure is important, one of these is the roof, and you can't live in a house or any building without it. Roof is the top covering of a building that serves as a protective covering from weather.


Roof comes in different types.

⌂ Shed or Lean-to-Roof
It is considered as the simplest form of roof consisting one single slope.



⌂ Gable or Pitch Roof
The most common type of roof, made of triangular sections consisting of two slopes meeting at the center of the ridge forming a gable.



⌂ Saw Tooth Roof
It is the development of the shed made into a series of lean-to-roof covering one building.



⌂ Double Gable Roof
It is a modification of gable or a hip and valley roof.



⌂ Hip Roof
It is also a common form used in modern houses having straight sides all sloping towards the center of the building terminating at the ridge.



⌂ Hip and Valley Roof
It is a common combination of hip roof and intersecting gable roof forming a T or L shaped building.



⌂ Pyramid Roof
It is a modification of the hip roof wherein the four straight sides are sloping towards the center terminating at a point.



⌂ Gambrel Roof
It is the modification of the gable roof with each side having two slopes.



⌂ Ogee Roof
It is a pyramid having steep sides sloping to the center.



⌂ Mansard Roof
The sides slope steeply from each side of the building towards the center forming a flat deck on top.



⌂ French or Concave Mansard Roof
It is a modification of the mansard roof where the sides are concave.



⌂ Dome
It is a hemispherical form of roof usually used in observatories.



⌂ Conical Roof or Shire
It is a steep roof of a circular base to a central point.



⌂ Butterfly Roof It is a two shed roof where the slope meet at the center of the building.

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