Broken roof skylight

If you want to create in your home an additional room for housing, then you should think about the construction of a broken roof skylight. This is perhaps the most complex construction of the roof, however, despite this, it enjoys well-deserved popularity.

Types of broken roof skylights

Mansard sloping roofs of private houses differ in the number of skates. A single-pitched roof with a broken surface looks like an inclined plane lying on walls of different heights. This is the simplest variety of dormer roofs.

The gable roofing mansard roof consists of two planes, which are directed in different directions. Both of their parts are rectangles bending in the center, and at their junction a rib is obtained. Thus, broken lines appear on the roof.

Under such a gable roof, an attic is most often equipped, so a house with a broken roof is very popular. Such a roof, consisting of two ramps, is most often erected on houses that have a rectangular shape.

Sometimes it is possible to meet a three-tiered broken roof skylight. Such a roof is used in case it is necessary to connect the roof of another part of the house with the attic. This roof has one vertical butt, and in the other all the fractures of the profile are repeated. The absence of a single wall significantly reduces the weight of the gable roof.

In the four-sloped roof there are broken profiles along all the slopes. This is the most difficult in the performance of the attic roof. However, this design has one significant advantage: a fairly light weight of the structure. In order to obtain a symmetrical beautiful roof, it is necessary to make a preliminary accurate calculation of wind loads and area of ​​coverage. Depending on these calculations are selected materials for the construction of the roof.

For the manufacture of the roof slat roof, wooden beams and edging boards, fixing accessories, brackets, brackets, screws, insulation and waterproofing are used. As a roofing material for an attic roof, the most commonly used are ondulin, bitumen shingles, slate and some others.

Having installed a broken roof on the private house, the owners receive an aesthetically attractive roof, which also has practicality, since a whole floor of living space appears beneath it. The attic under the broken roof can be used in warm weather, and by creating a good thermal insulation, it will be possible to live in it all the year round.