Peek Roof Line Dormer

A flared gable features a peak that extends a foot or more out from the front wall.

Peek roof line dormer.

Running trim gable decoration. It has a roof that forms a peak with a triangular gable of wall above the window beneath. It can be built with rafters that run from the walls and meet at a raised center ridge to form a peak or gable above two opposite walls. Add a dormer to an existing top floor to change the look of your home add light and gain headroom inside the dormer.

Or with prebuilt trusses. The gable dormer is the most common type. Start at the outward edge and lay a shingle across the ridge and nail with roofing nails. Raise the roof to create more cubic feet of space beneath it.

The drawing at left shows our three square bracket in a dormer. Continue shingling in this manner by overlapping the next shingle until you reach the valley. Shed dormers often blur the line between a dormer and simply being a second story. A common roof style with 2 sloped roof sections meeting at a peak centered above the end walls forming a symmetrical roof line.

Hipped almost as typical as the gable dormer these hipped roof dormers are one of the defining characteristics of the american foursquare. The top of the roof dormer is shingled across the ridge line. Because of the right angle they form any bracket that is symmetrical equal on both sides can be used as decoration.