All,
I'm looking to build an 8ft square gazebo / pagoda with a slate roof, but supported by four six-by-six posts (no walls).
The awkward part is it needs to be a pagoda roof style - ie a normal roof with a hole in the middle of it, with a "second" smaller roof over the hole - with a eight inch gap between the main and top roofs.
It's kind of hard to describe, but the general type of roof is the pyramid style, not the gable style - or whatever the terminaology is...
Imagine a shallow pyramid with the top third sliced off and then re-attached slightly higher - supported by four short posts resting on the bottom section.
Does anyone know of any guides out there which would help me build such a roof structure. think I might have to do it myself.
On a related point, how does one seal the edges of a slate roof, where one roof plane meets the other - ie the "edges" of the pyramid?
By the way, I want the roof to have around a 12-15-inch overhang (outside the 8ft square) which would be at a shallower angle than the rest.
best regards,
Guy
I'm looking to build an 8ft square gazebo / pagoda with a slate roof, but supported by four six-by-six posts (no walls).
The awkward part is it needs to be a pagoda roof style - ie a normal roof with a hole in the middle of it, with a "second" smaller roof over the hole - with a eight inch gap between the main and top roofs.
It's kind of hard to describe, but the general type of roof is the pyramid style, not the gable style - or whatever the terminaology is...
Imagine a shallow pyramid with the top third sliced off and then re-attached slightly higher - supported by four short posts resting on the bottom section.
Does anyone know of any guides out there which would help me build such a roof structure. think I might have to do it myself.
On a related point, how does one seal the edges of a slate roof, where one roof plane meets the other - ie the "edges" of the pyramid?
By the way, I want the roof to have around a 12-15-inch overhang (outside the 8ft square) which would be at a shallower angle than the rest.
best regards,
Guy