A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on rectangular houses will have two triangular sides and two trapezoidal ones. A hip roof on a rectangular plan has four faces.
use an angle finder
The angle, or pitch, of a roof is calculated by the number of inches it rises vertically for every 12 inches it extends horizontally.
If you do not have access to a roof framing book, I would use a tape and measure it. Length x width = square footage. My book says you should come up with : 11.33 x 12 = 135.96 sq ft
One square covers 100 square feet, so to cover 1900 square feet of roof you would need 19 squares. However, you also need "starter shingles" and "hip and ridge" shingles, plus you need to have a few extras because of waste from cutting angles. Starter shingles go around the perimeter of the roof as a bottom layer for the first course of shingles. Hip and ridge shingles go, as you might expect, on the hips and ridges. In order to know for sure the exact quantity you would need for the entire roofing job you have to measure all of these areas.
For a gable end to gable end installation on 16" spacing you would need 34 trusses, 2 of which would be the gables. If your roof-line has hip ends or will be incorporated into an existing structure there will be more trusses.
You can figure it out with a roof framing book if you know the span and pitch of the roof. Its usually quicker to climb up there with a tape.
Yes, a gambrel is a form of hip roof.
Labor cost for hip roof would be more then gable. Materials are about the same. Hip roof cost slightly more.
a hip roof is stronger than a gable roof because it braces itself and cannot move from side to side.
To add an addition onto a house of any kind with a hip roof, the addition roof must be shorter than the rest. The hip roof goes all the way down to the eaves.
u lay your shingels level to the hip and cut the excess diagonal off then cover the hip after each side is roofed with a "cap"
Neither is "better" in terms of usefulness or structural efficiency. Hip and gable are primarily responses to design needs. A hip roof is slightly stronger than a gable.
That is a hip roof.
A hip roof has a slope on all four sides. A gable roof only has it on two sides. On the short sides of the house the side wall goes up to the point of the roof.
These days the trussed hip roof is most popular.
use an angle finder
A hipped roof is a roof that slopes downwards. It has a uniform angle of pitch. To learn more about how to build a hipped roof, one can visit the wikiHow website.