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2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.

3. Flat roof - Wikipedia

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   Flat roof in Los Angeles. Flat roof in Warszawa Centralna railway station in Poland (1975) A flat roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs have up to approximately 10°. [1] Flat roofs are an ancient form mostly used in arid climates and ...

4. Garage door - Wikipedia

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   A garage door is a large door to allow egress for a garage that opens either manually or by an electric motor (a garage door opener). Garage doors are frequently large enough to accommodate automobiles and other vehicles. The operating mechanism is usually spring-loaded or counterbalanced to offset the door's weight and reduce the human or ...

5. List of house types - Wikipedia

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   A gablefront house or gablefront cottage has a gable roof that faces its street or avenue, as in the novel The House of Seven Gables. A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A. Chalet: a gablefront house built into a mountainside with a wide sloping roof

6. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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   Ctrs. means centers, a typical line to which carpenters layout framing. Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1] Such roofs are built with mostly timber, take a number of different shapes, and are covered with a variety of materials.

7. Garage (residential) - Wikipedia

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   A residential garage (UK: / ˈɡærɑːʒ, - rɑːdʒ, - rɪdʒ / GARR-ahzh, -⁠ahj, -⁠ij, US: / ɡəˈrɑːʒ, - rɑːdʒ / gə-RAHZH, -⁠RAHJ) is a walled, roofed structure with a door for storing a vehicle or vehicles that may be part of or attached to a home ("attached garage"), or a separate outbuilding or shed ("detached garage").