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2. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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   Roofing material is the outermost layer on the roof of a building, sometimes self-supporting, but generally supported by an underlying structure. A building's roofing material provides shelter from the natural elements. The outer layer of a roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material, and the nature of the supporting ...

3. Carport - Wikipedia

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   Carport in front of garages One example of the many common types of modern carports sold on the market. This particular one is a stand-alone model. Carport in Japan. A carport is a covered structure used to offer limited protection to vehicles, primarily cars, from rain and snow. The structure can either be free standing or attached to a wall.

4. Roof - Wikipedia

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   A roof (pl.: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind. [1] A roof is part of the building envelope.

5. Fascia (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The horizontal "fascia board" which caps the end of rafters outside a building may be used to hold the rain gutter. The finished surface below the fascia and rafters is called the soffit or eave. In classical architecture, the fascia is the plain, wide band (or bands) that make up the architrave section of the entablature, directly above the ...

6. Despite active quake year, some California suburbs refuse to ...

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   The term applies to apartment buildings built decades ago where the bottom floor has room for a carport, garage or retail shop. ... like replacing leaky roofs or upgrading old electrical panels ...

7. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Pyramid roof: A steep hip roof on a square building. Pyatthat: A multi-tiered and spired roof commonly found in Burmese royal and Buddhist architecture. Tented: A type of polygonal hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak; Helm roof, Rhenish helm: A pyramidal roof with gable ends; often found on church towers.