Adding A Gable Roof Addition To A Hip Roof

Tie a new gable or hip roof to an existing gable or hip roof with valley rafters which perform the same function as ledgers.

Adding a gable roof addition to a hip roof.

Half hip roof this is an add on to a gable roof where the end of the gable includes a small hip roof section that slopes toward the ridge. Either the addition is added to form a t shape to the house with the ridge running perpendicular to the main house roof or the addition is continued on the end of the house making it longer with the ridge running the same way as the existing house. Mar 13 2015 roofing gutters and all waterproofing anywhere hip roof addition question. The architect has the pitch of the existing hip roof as 5 12.

A hip roof has roof planes built over every exterior wall in the plan that does not have another wall drawn above it. Also known as a clipped gable or jerkin head roof. To make the blind valleys we attached sleepers to the shed roof locating them. However you can have an understanding of the work being done or even do it yourself if you have prior experience with roofing projects.

Again choosing the easy way out we opted to build blind valleys aka california valleys where one intersecting roof is built on top of the other. Strip the roofing from the old roof at the connection point to. I got in the attic and found it to be more like 5 5 12 measuring common rafters. To create a hip roof using manual roof planes we will use the existing plan from the section above but first we will need to delete the existing roof planes in our plan by selecting build roof delete roof planes.

Several methods exist based on the current roof design. How to tie up to existing roof. Adding a gable roof to an existing roof is no small project and is best left to the professionals. The gable roof on the porch addition was framed with a dropped structural ridge supporting the common rafters above.

Here we will focus on adding length to the end of a house roof.