Make Your Home Hurricane Free With Bonnet Roofs
Enhance the charm of your home or building with bonnet roof structures as these provide an extravagant face to any building. Although, these are quite unusual, it is a preferred choice for most of the homeowners.
A bonnet roof is a type of roof that is characterized by two slopes on four sides of a roof, and the bottom slope is more angular than the top slope. Bonnet roofs are generally the modified form of hipped roofs. These also do not have the gables. All the walls in a house with bonnet roofs have same height as all the sides of the roof meet the wall of the home.
Since each side of the roof consists of two slopes, the upper slope in much steeper than the lower one. The bottom slope is often used to cover an open-sided porch that surrounds the building and is useful in shielding the house from bad weather or heat. The bottom part of the roof resembles an eave and thus, is referred to as kicked eave roof.
Bonnet roofs have the advantage of being excellent in environments subject to high winds. They are good where tornadoes and hurricanes are yearly threats. The roof provides minimal wind resistance, and the solid design helps it hold on to the walls if constructed with higher pitch.
Also, with bonnet roofs, there is a very less space inside the rooms. Beside this, may you have any type of roofs, timely maintenance is mandatory? However, maintaining a bonnet type hip roof is quite difficult due to uneasy access.
Bonnet roofing are very older techniques to gratify the roof. Moreover, these are highly popular roofing style in French vernacular architecture.
This type of roof can be a bit challenging to construct, but it requires less support and bracing than some other roof designs. As compared to gable and other roof structures, these roofs demand for some complex trusses for its construction.
All you need is well qualified and experienced roofers so as to construct the roof adequately. Since, hip roofs are bit difficult, an untrained man may cause heavy damages to the roof and the house in turn. Otherwise also the cost of constructing such roof structures is high as compared to the gable roofs.