making it appear that the roof actually starts conventionally at the top of the external wall. Venting is an issue any time you add a pitched roof. Chimneys, flues, plumbing and air vents all need ...

Flat roofs share one trait: with time, they tend to leak. You can, of course, have a new hot-tar-and-gravel roof put down but sometimes there may be a design reason for adding a pitched roof as a ...

Q: I have a house that was built in the 1970s and that has a flat roof with a small parapet wall around it. Can I have a pitched roof put on top of the flat roof? Do homeowners ever do that?

The extension included a new pitch roof on the garage at the gable end, but water continues to appear down the inside wall of the garage despite triple layers of flashing. Our builder has been ...

Conventional wisdom has it that the best roof for a house in a snow-prone location is a pitched roof: that way the snow doesn’t pile up and cause the roof to collapse. The downside, the snow can ...

Danish building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) specialist Solartag has launched a new solar tile for pitched roofs. “Solartag’s T-Roof plate is a fully integrated BIPV solution designed to ...

A pitched roof system that has been developed ... The new EcoA and RapidA roof hooks provide the connection to the roof and require only one Torx T40 plate head screw to fix them to the rafters. This ...

unlike standard roof hooks for pitched roofs, has two positions in the vertical plane, instead of the usual plates with serrations and screws,” the company said in a statement. “All installers ...