Yes, a gambrel is a form of hip roof.
Neither is "better" in terms of usefulness or structural efficiency. Hip and gable are primarily responses to design needs. A hip roof is slightly stronger than a gable.
If hipped both ends then, yes.
The end of a roof when it is formed into a shape intermediate between a gable and a hip; the gable rises about halfway to the ridge, resulting in a truncated shape, the roof being inclined backward from this level.
All exterior walls in a home are load bearing. The exterior walls on the gable end of your house do not bear much load, but the walls that the hip of the roof bear on carry your roof and ceiling joints. Interior walls are another story. Usually in a smaller one story home there is a wall that runs the midspan of the house that is load bearing for your roof and ceiling joints.
Yes, a gambrel is a form of hip roof.
A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on rectangular houses will have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces.
Labor cost for hip roof would be more then gable. Materials are about the same. Hip roof cost slightly more.
a hip roof is stronger than a gable roof because it braces itself and cannot move from side to side.
To add an addition onto a house of any kind with a hip roof, the addition roof must be shorter than the rest. The hip roof goes all the way down to the eaves.
Neither is "better" in terms of usefulness or structural efficiency. Hip and gable are primarily responses to design needs. A hip roof is slightly stronger than a gable.
That is a hip roof.
A hip roof has a slope on all four sides. A gable roof only has it on two sides. On the short sides of the house the side wall goes up to the point of the roof.
These days the trussed hip roof is most popular.
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A hipped roof is a roof that slopes downwards. It has a uniform angle of pitch. To learn more about how to build a hipped roof, one can visit the wikiHow website.
If hipped both ends then, yes.