The gable roof, in my opinion, is perhaps the easiest roof to frame outside of a flat roof. To frame a gable roof, all you really need is a framing square that has crisp dimension markings on it ...

We are designing a pitched roof for our 1950s-era home that has an almost-flat torch-down roof. We want to update the look and get a better roofing system. The engineer and construction company ...

For instance, older flat-roof buildings were generally designed to take a minimum imposed roof load of 0.75kN/m², whereas current regulations (see Eurocode 1, in particular BS EN 1991-1-1:2002, BS ...