Gable: Wednesday’s Word Of The Week
For the next few “Word of the Week” entries, we will be covering words that describe parts of a building. While not specific to glulam construction, these do frequently come up and are useful when describing a building.
Our first word is “gable.” A gable is basically a wall that comes to a peak. The simplest type of house shape, with a ridge the full length of the house, is called a “gable roof” because the walls at the ends of the ridge come to a peak and are therefore gable walls.
*Each Wednesday our structural engineer, Rik Vandermeulen, discusses a new term associated with glulam manufacturing. He will do this until we run out of words. If there is a timber or glulam term that you have heard of and want to know more about, let us know in the comments.