Half Hipped Roof: Wednesday’s Word Of The Week
A Half Hipped Roof (also known as a Clipped Gable or Jerkin Head) is another cross between a gable roof and a hip roof. In this case, it is a small section of hip roof right at the top of a gable – the gable roof ridge is clipped off at the ends.
Because the ridge is cut short of the building ends, it is not practical to have a structural ridge. Arches, tied rafters, or trusses would need to span the full building width, and the half hip should be sized so its peak coincides with one of these frames.
*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.