Gabled Dormer Roof

Appropriately scaled gable dormers bring in light while adding charm and interest to a large or plain roof.

Gabled dormer roof.

On the dormer the flared roof helps shade the windows a boon when dormers face south or west in regions where summers are hot. If you re a little unsure of your rough framing or roofing skills hire a carpenter to help with this phase of the roof dormer project. Adding a gabled dormer window just might be the perfect way to boost the homey appeal especially when it s spruced up with a window box. If designed well they don t compete with the lines of the main house.

When you have several dormer windows on the sloped angle of the roof facing the street use the same window treatments for a cohesive look unless they are blind or false dormers. Wide about 9 ft. A dormer is a roofed structure often containing a window that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. It isn t on the gable end of the house as it sits on the sloped angle of the roof just like other dormer windows.

Gabled dormer with a window box. Gable roof dormers project at a right angle to the roof. Each dormer adds about 30 sq. A dormer window is a form of roof window.

A gable is a triangle formed by the 2 sloping planes of the roof of a building meeting at the ridge beam in the middle. In a gabled dormer the side walls take the load of roof rafters and shift the load on to the rafters in the main roof. From the floor to the peak and set back from the front wall of the house about 2 ft. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space in a loft and to create window openings in a roof plane.

The gable dormers we built are 6 ft. A dormer window with a gable roof is known as a gable dormer window. This is basically a gabled dormer but the dormer roof flares out in the same way that the main roof on a house often flares out to accommodate a porch or an addition.