Peek Roof Line Dormer

The 12 12 roof pitch is also known as a square pitch roof since a 90 degree angle is formed at the peak of such roofs.

Peek roof line dormer.

The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Running trim gable decoration. Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it. Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer.

The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer. It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath. The gable dormer is the most common type. A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall.

Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration. Or with prebuilt trusses. Add a second floor new top story covering part or all the home. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails.

Raise the pitch of a roof from flat or low slope to something steeper for aesthetic and practical reasons. A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story.