| When it comes to roof designs, there are two | | | | horizontal. |
| main styles that are being used nowadays: | | | | Now, getting to the curved roofing style, we |
| straight roofing styles, including pitched, skillion and | | | | must start with the cranked roofs. They are |
| hipped and curved roofing styles, that can be | | | | made of a single piece of steel with a curve on |
| cranked, convex, old gothic and sandwich. | | | | top. You can surely see the difference from the |
| Should one choose steel as a building material for | | | | pitched roofs. This type of roofs allows the |
| the roof, there is a large variety of designs | | | | building of cavernous attics or high ceilings under |
| available, as steel is very versatile. | | | | the roofs, thus gaining more space for the owner |
| For example, when speaking about straight roofs, | | | | of the house. |
| pitched ones are the roofs whose sloping sections | | | | I will continue with the old gothic style roof. An old |
| are designed to meet at a peak in the middle of | | | | gothic roof makes use of both a concave and |
| the structure. But if you choose a pitched roof, | | | | convex curve in the one steel sheet. Convex |
| that is the way most roofs are built, you most | | | | roofs are also included in the curved roofing style |
| not forget about the drainage along the bottom | | | | and obviously have a convex shape! |
| of each section. | | | | Sandwich roofs have two skins of steel glued |
| Another type of roof is the hipped one, which is | | | | onto a polystyrene core: one skin for the roof |
| also a pitched roof, with the single difference that | | | | and another for the internal ceiling, thus providing |
| it has more than two sections that meet each | | | | for insulation. |
| other at 'hips'. If you need to imagine how such a | | | | So, now that you have become a bit familiar with |
| hipped roof may look like, think of an L-shaped | | | | the types of roofs you can choose from, deciding |
| roof and you will need no further explanation. | | | | for the perfect one is not so difficult a task |
| Skillon roofs is different from the pitched roofs, | | | | anymore. The roof you settle for must only |
| as it is made of a single continuous piece of steel. | | | | meet your demands and it's a done thing! Just |
| It is a single section roof, that can be made at a | | | | keep on looking until you are perfectly happy. |
| very shallow angle, as low as one degree to the | | | | |