Home Roofing Styles

Gable Roof: A roof with two sloping
sides, forming a triangle at one or
both ends.




Gambrel Roof: A roof with two
angles of slope on each of two the                                                         lower slope steeper then the upper.

 Hipped Roof: All four sides of this roof slope inward to meet at a ridge or peak.

                                                 Mansard Roof: All four sides of this                                                  roof have two slopes, the lower four                                                    steeper then the upper four.

 Saltbox Roof: A variation of the gable
roof, originally created when a low lean-to
addition was built onto the back wall of a house.

                                                          Shed Roof: A simple one slop                                                              roof; also called a lean-to roof.