No one wants to have to replace a roof on their home, nor repair a roof either. But the facts are that there comes a time when the roof we have is in need of repair, or perhaps replacing. Perhaps there is another reason, outside of the disadvantage of the cost, that we don’t like dealing with roofing in Madison Wisconsin. Could it be that it’s because when the roofer comes down off the ladder after walking around your homes roof he begins talking in a language we don’t understand? With things like, “hipped” and “ridge line” and “roofing valley” we are thinking, “What the heck is up there anyways?” Not to fear here we will take a plain language look at the language of roofers to try and make sense of it all for you.
Hipped Roofing in Madison Wisconsin
This is what we might call the crest or the top upper part, in actuality it is wherever two sides of the roof meet in the center to form an angle. So the front and the back sides meet and the meeting place in the center is called the roofs “hip”. Not all roofs have hips but those that do are generally covered with a top tile, naturally called the “hip tile”. Hip tiles are 50% rounded and are place over the hip area covering the center meeting place of the actual hip. These same tiles can be used on the ridge line, which we will get to next.
The Ridge Line of Roofing in Madison Wisconsin
The ridge line is in essence the apex of the roof, the highest sitting top of the roof. So the ridge line tiles are rounded and go the length of the roofings ridge line and are, like hip tiles, attached with mortar. Ridge line tiles are less likely to be blown off in the wind unlike hip tiles, but it does occasionally happen with roofing in Madison Wisconsin.
The Roofing Valleys in Madison Wisconsin
Roofing valleys are also where two sides of the roof meet, but are the direct opposite of a hip. It’s easy to remember that a hip is a meeting place of two points on the outer edge or external corner of the roof. The internal roof corners where two sides meet is the roofing valley. Roofing valleys in Madison Wisconsin are constructed from many different types of materials, where it is fiberglass, or lead being the most common materials on valleys in roofing in Madison Wisconsin.
Now that you are familiar with the most frequently used roofing terms you can speak to your roofing Madison Wisconsin specialist with more accuracy. And when you call and drop the name of the area on your roof that is giving you the most problem, and that can’t hurt in his sharpening his pencil with your estimate either. Get more information at Elevate Construction, Inc.
