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2. Bargeboard - Wikipedia

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   Bargeboard, 1908 illustration. A bargeboard or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed end grain of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof.

3. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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   An asphalt shingle roof has flexible asphalt shingles as the ridge cap. Some roof shingles are non-combustible or have a better fire rating than others which influence their use, some building codes do not allow the use of shingles with less than a class-A fire rating to be used on some types of buildings. Due to increased fire hazard, wood ...

4. Wood shingle - Wikipedia

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   The shingle edges are then cut with another circular saw called a "trim saw" to remove irregular edges. The result is a tapered shingle sawn on all six sides. The thickness of the butt, or thicker end of the tapered cut, is usually 3 ⁄ 8 inch (9.5 mm) thick but is also commonly made to be 5 ⁄ 8 inch (16 mm), and can be made to any custom ...

5. Gable roof - Wikipedia

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   Gable roof A form of gable roof (Käsbissendach) on the tower of the church in Hopfen am See, Bavaria. A gable roof [1] is a roof consisting of two sections whose upper horizontal edges meet to form its ridge. The most common roof shape in cold or temperate climates, it is constructed of rafters, roof trusses or purlins.

6. Ice dam (roof) - Wikipedia

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   Ice dams may result in leaks through the roofing material, possibly resulting in damaged ceilings, walls, roof structure and insulation, or injury when the ice dam falls off or from attempts to remove ice dams. [1] The melting of roof snow comes from the combination of three basic causes: [2] Air temperatures well below freezing.

7. Gable - Wikipedia

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   The gable end roof is a poor design for hurricane or tornado-prone regions. Winds blowing against the gable end can exert tremendous pressure, both on the gable and on the roof edges where they overhang it, causing the roof to peel off and the gable to cave in. [4] [5]