Roof With Curved Eaves

This type of roof provides more options for extending the loft and installing windows allowing a greater amount of natural light into the room.

Roof with curved eaves. Doing so raises the eave which prevents it from conflicting with the window head height. Closed eaves with angled soffit closed eaves with flat soffit and no raised heel. This roof plane will become a curved eave or dutch kick. Gabled photo by nancy andrews.

Mansard roofs can help create a great deal of extra living space. This roof plane will become a curved eave or dutch kick. From left to right. Creating a hip roof with curved eaves.

A mansard roof also known as a french roof is a four sided roof with a double slope on each side that meet forming a low pitched roof. Curved eave solarium designs a refined sun room patio enclosure with an elegant curved eave. Any roof plane can be turned into a curved roof plane in the roof plane specification dialog. Box profile curved sheeting supplied in forward profile and manufactured up to 6 metres in length.

With their curiously curved roofs eyebrow dormers frame views from houses of several architectural periods including the shingle style houses popular in east coast seashore communities. Select build roof roof plane from the menu then click and drag to draw a roof plane that bears on one of the horizontal walls. Open eaves with trusses. A curved roof adds an extremely modern interesting feature to any building.

Custom shingles cedar shingles can be steam bent across the grain to form a convex or concave curve. This allows them to be used not only in curved eaves but also in architectural features such as bell towers flared wall edges onion roofs and wall arches. Eyebrow dormers are also used on houses where the roofing shingles are curved around eaves to mimic the look of thatch. The lower slope is much steeper than the upper.

Used to clad the area between wall and roof curved eaves sheets are a versatile option to using flashing or guttering components. The graceful lines and elegant symmetry of our curved eave solarium designs complement your home s existing roofline for a polished finished look. When designing an open eave with roof trusses make sure that you raise the heel of the truss and use a thicker top chord.