Mixing Roof Pitches

But really combination of roofing styles is where character peaks.

Mixing roof pitches.

The pitch will change for the block on the right side and the entire center section can line up on a single plan. The picture below describes this visually better than. It has two equal panels pitched at an angle meet at a ridge in the middle of a building. A sub variation of the mono pitch is known as saw.

The triangle section can be left open for an open gable roof or it can be enclosed for a boxed gable roof. To see how pitch impacts the look of a garage and changes cost click the design center button on our pole barn kits page. Homes with a mono pitch roof are usually designed with large windows or multiple windows to take advantage of natural light. Roof pitch refers to the amount of rise a roof has compared to the horizontal measurement of the roof called the run.

One idea i had was to sort of combine hip and gable roofs by doing the two roof peaks on the left the lower pitches with a little shed roof going across the entirely of the gable right above the garage doors for example and making doing a traditional rake gable edge on the porch entry. Mixing in roof details or parts and materials that match well with the house creates a style. Where the pitches change the ridges won t be parallel but otherwise the change should be pretty invisible. What is the standard pitch for a roof.

A side gable is a basic pitched roof. A crossed gable roof is two gable roof sections put together at a right angle.