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2. Pole building framing - Wikipedia

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   Wide buildings with common rafters need interior rows of posts. Sometimes rafters may be attached directly to the poles. The roof pitch of pole buildings is usually low and the roof form is usually gable or lean-to. Metal roofing is commonly used as the roofing and siding material on pole buildings.

3. Lean-to - Wikipedia

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   A lean-to is originally defined as a structure in which the rafters lean against another building or wall, also referred to in prior times as a penthouse. [2] These structures characteristically have shed roofs, also referred to as "skillions", or "outshots" and "catslides" when the shed's roof is a direct extension of a larger structure's.

4. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Shed roof (lean-to, pent roof, [2] skirt roof, outshot, skillion, mono-roof [3]): A roof with one slope, historically attached to a taller wall. Saw-tooth: Multiple single-pitched roofs arrayed in a row, sometimes seen on factories. [4] Multi-pitched roof:

5. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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   The top ends of the rafters often meet at a ridge beam, but may butt directly to another rafter to form a pair of rafters called a couple. Depending on the roof covering material, either horizontal laths , battens , or purlins are fixed to the rafters; or boards, plywood , or oriented strand board form the roof deck (also called the sheeting or ...

6. Shed roof - Wikipedia

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   Shed roof attached to a barn. A shed roof, also known variously as a pent roof, lean-to roof, outshot, catslide, skillion roof (in Australia and New Zealand), and, rarely, a mono-pitched roof, [1] is a single-pitched roof surface. This is in contrast to a dual- or multiple-pitched roof.

7. Siding (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Highly decorative wood-shingle siding on a house in Clatskanie, Oregon, U.S. Siding or wall cladding is the protective material attached to the exterior side of a wall of a house or other building. Along with the roof, it forms the first line of defense against the elements, most importantly sun, rain/snow, heat and cold, thus creating a stable ...

8. Purlin - Wikipedia

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   The rafters are the beams of wood angled upward from the ground. They meet at the top of the gable at a ridge beam , which has extra bracing to attach it to the rafters. The purlins are the large beams perpendicular to the rafters; from this shot, it appears that there are three purlins on either side of the roof.

9. Birdsmouth joint - Wikipedia

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   A birds-mouth joint in a rafter, set upon a double top plate. Shown are the two cuts of the joint: the seat cut and the heel cut. In light frame construction, a birdsmouth joint or bird's beak cut is a woodworking joint that is generally used to connect a roof rafter to the top plate of a supporting wall. [1]