When adding a new gabled roof addition to your home you will need to find a way of joining the two roofs together.
How to join two gable roofs together.
Most gable roofs are simple with a center peak and two sloping sides.
There are many roof styles but the most common are gable which slopes.
Called tying in this helps to weatherproof and strengthen the joint.
A shingle style popular in the late 1800s has front facing gables on either end of a basic gable peak.
A gable roof is fairly simple geometrically but when two gable roof lines intersect the geometry gets more complicated.
Called tying in this helps to weatherproof and strengthen the joint.
Joining two roofs of different pitches framing.
Building an addition on a house requires connecting two roofs whether the new space is a wing of living areas or a carport.
In this video i show you how you can intersect two roofs in archicad this technique can be used for example when you want to design a cross gable roof.
The porch joined the house at right.
How to frame join two gable roof lines.
Some architectural styles however place two gable roofs side by side.
Jlc classics joining two roofs of different pitches.