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  2. Pole building framing - Wikipedia

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    The roof structure is frequently a truss roof supporting purlins or laths, or built using common rafters. 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.

  3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Bonnet roof: A reversed gambrel or Mansard roof with the lower portion at a lower pitch than the upper portion. Monitor roof: A roof with a monitor; 'a raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.' Butterfly roof (V-roof, [8] London roof [9]): A ...

  4. Roof pitch - Wikipedia

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    Display of roof pitches 1:12 through 18:12 A roof made of thatch, one of the oldest roofing materials, needs a steep pitch to drain properly Some types of stone roof have a very restrictive roof pitch, which can lead to leaking Working on roofs with pitches too steep for safety requires a staging of scaffolding boards secured with roof brackets A pitch gauge measuring the slope of an asphalt ...

  5. Functionally classified barn - Wikipedia

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    A pole barn in North America is a barn that is essentially a roof extended over a series of poles. They are generally rectangular and do not require exterior walls. The roof is supported by the poles, which make up the perimeter of the barn. [8] Walls may be added to pole barns but are not required for structural integrity.

  6. Dutch barn - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom a structure called a Dutch barn is a relatively recent agricultural development meant specifically for hay and straw storage; most examples were built from the 19th century. British Dutch barns represent a type of pole barn in common use today. Design styles range from fixed roof to adjustable roof; some Dutch barns have ...

  7. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    A variation of a plank framed truss with metal plate connectors on a pole barn. Plank framed truss was the name for roof trusses made with planks rather than timber roof trusses. In the 20th century, it was typical for carpenters to make their own trusses by nailing planks together with wood plates at the joints.

  8. Gambrel - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving framed house in North America, the Fairbanks House, has an ell with a gambrel roof, but this roof was a later addition. Claims to the origin of the gambrel roof form in North America include: Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, the Coast Salish, used gambrel roof form (Suttle & Lane (1990), p. 491). [10]

  9. Dutch gable roof - Wikipedia

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    House with Dutch gable roof in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. A Dutch gable roof or gablet roof (in Britain) is a roof with a small gable at the top of a hip roof. The term Dutch gable is also used to mean a gable with parapets. Some sources refer to this as a gable-on-hip roof. [1] Dutch gable roof works of Padmanabhapuram Palace in India

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