From: Jon & Deb Rush <jdrush@enter.net>
>My storage shed has a barn style roof.
>Is that called a hip roof,
No. A hip roof is a roof on a square building. Roof consists of four
triangles, coming to a point at the top. Or a roof on a rectangular
building with two triangles on the end and two trapizoids on the side coming
together to form a ridgepole shorter than the building.
>where
>it has two steep sections near the walls and two shallow sections
>leading up to the peak?
That would be called a "barn roof" or "gambrel roof".
see http://www.m-w.com/mw/art/roof.htm
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Chev Suburban
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