In terms of longevity, a pitched roof with tiles will have a longer lifespan (around 50-90 years) while a flat roof finished with traditional EPDM rubber will be much shorter and require ...

Now you have to determine the pitch of the dormer roof, which allows for the 1-foot clearance under the house roof peak. If there is adequate clearance, making the dormer roof the same pitch as ...

Now you have to determine the pitch of the dormer roof that allows for the 1-foot clearance under the roof peak. If there is adequate clearance, making the dormer roof the same pitch as the house ...

For example, a house with a 38-foot span and an 8/12 pitch could accommodate a 12-foot-wide room. With a 10/12 roof, the room width could be 16 feet. Your truss builder can help you with the numbers.

Bishop McDowell completed a new Canadian house overlooking the Atlantic, using minimal details and traditional forms to ...

Magarian proposed replacing the flat-gravel roof with a steeply pitched roof. The new roof would have a 7-12 pitch (for each horizontal foot, the roof rises 7 inches), like those on Cape Cod cottages.

Flat roofs share one trait: with time, they tend to leak. You can, of course, have a new hot-tar-and-gravel roof put down but sometimes there may be a design reason for adding a pitched roof as a ...

Here's the thing, though: Roofing prices can vary wildly depending on size of the house, roof pitch, complexity of the job and any possible structural repairs. Your location factors into cost as well.

A single pitch roof is designed to slope away from the three-storey high party wall of the adjacent house, and the roof is positioned low in height with a gentle roof angle. The car porch roof at ...