Gable Roof Layers

Nail the first boards on top of your wall where you plan to build your roof.

Gable roof layers.

Here are the layers of a roof in order of application bottom to top. You can usually see the underside of plywood decking from the attic. After they re up you can snap a line to mark and trim the tails in a nice straight line to make up for any ridge warp or marking cutting and fixing errors. A hybrid of hipped and gable with the gable wall at the top and hipped lower down.

The opposite arrangement to the half hipped roof. Nail 2 boards onto your walls as top plates. It provides structure by tying the trusses and joists together. A gable roof is the classic most commonly occurring roof shape in those parts of the world with cold or temperate climates.

Decking most often made out of plywood this roof layer is installed over the framing in a typical roof install. The pitch of the roof and the height of the gutters can vary greatly. When you nail in the second boards offset the seams of the upper and lower layers by at least 24 in 61 cm. Use 8 penny nails to attach the first 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm board to the wall studs.

A roof gable is sometimes referred to as a rake. Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings that is unless the upper gable or gables is. It consists of two roof sections sloping in opposite directions and placed such that the highest horizontal edges meet to form the roof ridge. The opposite of architectural shingles are three tab shingles which are produced as a single layer of tabs and appear flat or without the dimension of a laminated shingle.