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Oops sorry! I wrote "rem: 1 point, hips ain't the same as common rafters, they have a unit run of 17 not 12, plus your hips will have to be raised and chamfered to allow the roof cladding to sit nicely and to have a uniform effect when you look up froim underneath... " That should read...

Hi Guy, The term you need is HIP, These types of gazebo's are interupted hip roofs. If your Math minded there is a book by a fella called Marshall Gross (Roof Framing), its a U.S book all in imperial using sliding gauges, but the math principles in it are spot on. Your padoga is actually...

Hi Laragh, Yep the staining is caused by the mortar attacking the lead, everywhere I look in Ireland I see mortar directly applied to lead. This is very poor workmanship, not to mention the lack of patination oil. Mortar should never be applied to lead directly, the lead should be treated...

Folks, I have just done a complex part of a little roofing project, so this is really a retrospective question. I have 3 roofs, intersecting at one point, 2 parallel and one adj at the back, producing 2 pitched valleys running down into one low pitch hogs valley (sorry dunno the european...