Roof Tile Glossary

A single course of short tiles is also used both sides of the ridge.

Roof tile glossary.

An a frame ceiling can be open to the top rafters. Short tiles used in a single course to give a double course of tiling at the eaves. Eaves or top tiles. More recently a roof truss means a prefabricated structural timber.

An architectural house style featuring steeply angled sides roofline that usually begin at or near the foundation line and meet at the top in the shape of the letter a. The glazing process defines the color and surface texture and produces a hard non porous impermeable tile with a water absorption rate of 0 5 or less. The tile is fired in a kiln at approximately 2 000 degrees. A purpose designed tile that covers the ridge of a pitched roof.

Quite common until the 1920 s the function of a roof truss is to support the purlins. Tile covering the apex. Usually measured from the butt of one shingle to the butt of the next overlapping shingles. Lap the overlap of surface of one roofing material to another.

Sometimes found in very large buildings where big rooms resulted in few load bearing walls. Abutment where the roof meets a structure rising above the roof. Exposure the portion of the shingle that is exposed to the weather. Accessory a concrete or terracotta product used to finish the roof.

The apex of two slopes on a pitched roof. The overhanging lower edge of the roof.