Pyramid Hip Roof Plan

The longer sides have a trapezoidal shape while the sides at the front and back have a triangular shape and are called hip ends.

Pyramid hip roof plan.

Roof battens lath hip end side. The pitch is the number of vertical inches that a roof descends over the span of 12 horizontal inches. A hip roof hip roof or hipped roof is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls usually with a fairly gentle slope although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak. A regular hip roof sits on a rectangular plan with four faces.

Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. 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. Pyramid hip roof framing diagram main roof side pyramid hip roof truss layout hip end side pyramidal roof framing plan truss layout jack rafters layout left side.

Step 1 pick the pitch of the roof you are building. A pyramid hip roof differs from the more common hip roofs that are built on top of rectangular buildings because it has no ridge beam only a point. A 45 degree roof has a 12 12 pitch. Just like the name suggests a pyramid roof takes the shape of a pyramid and it is constructed on top of a square or a rectangular base.

S1 s4 s13 s16 s17 s20 s25 28 hip rafters layout. It is sometimes also referred to as a dutch gable roof precisely because it contains both roof style features. S5 s8 s9 s12 s21 s24 s29 32 jack rafters layout right side. Hip roofs essentially lack gables or vertical sides.