Hips And Valleys Roofing

A hip and valley roof may be part of an irregular structure.

Hips and valleys roofing.

A hip roof is self bracing requiring less diagonal bracing than a gable roof. Today where laminate products are the overwhelming shingle of choice specific shingles are manufactured for the hips and ridges. Makes cutting exposed fastener panel extremely easy. Hip roofs are thus much more resistant to wind damage than gable roofs.

Overlap metal roof valley sections by 12 inches and seal the lap with a flexible sealant such as polyurethane or butyl on roofs shallower than 5 12. This type of roof is also called broken back hip and valley roof because the main hips are intconeected by the rafter of gables on one side and the rafter of the valley on the other. You can see in our roof valley photo left that there has been a history of. Eliminates burred edges and flying metal.

The hips are in red common rafters yellow and for hips to work on a square roof like above each member is equal. Find the square root of the result. In the age where 3 tab shingles were the standard in roofing it was common practice to take the same shingle used to cover the roofing slopes cut it into 3 pieces and use it to protect your hips and ridges. The hip and valley factor varies according to the slope of the roof as shown in the table below.

A dutch hip roof is a combination of both the hip roof and gable roof features. The gable portion of a dutch hip roof is usually placed at the end of the roof ridge and sits on top of the plane of the hip roof. For any roof slope expressed as x in 12 rise in run the hip and valley factor is determined by finding the square root of rise run 2. It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features.

Ideal for shearing heavy gauge exposed fastener panels with the ability to shear straight at 90 degrees and up to a 9 12 valley. Divide the rise by the run the run is 12. The green arrows above show every side is equal we ll assume 2 metres for this example. A hip roof on a varied plan h denotes a hip v denotes a valley.

Such buildings may have more than four hips in the roofs and they form valleys at the inside corners.