A shed dormer visible behind the peaked roof on the house shown here has a roof that slopes in only one direction toward the front.
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If you intend to heat your shed then ice buildup on the roof will be an issue.
Whereas a hip roof and other popular roof types have at least two sides the shed roof has a single slope that can vary in steepness depending on the design.
A dormer is a window in a roofed box added to the sloped roof to create more space light and ventilation.
The shed roof pitch has two slopes and the window above eaves level allows additional light into the shed.
Dormers in this style are characteristic of dutch colonial craftsman and colonial revival houses.
It is often roofed to match the style of the roof it is added to but not always.
This image shows a transom dormer.
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Think of a shed roof as a flat roof at a steeper slope.
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It has no peak no hip and it isn t rounded.
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Dormer windows such as the traditional gabled dormer or the more modern transom dormer allow in light add interest to a roof line and can also give some additional space in a shed loft.
It includes the same standard features as the a frame.
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The dormer garden shed is simply an enhanced a frame shed with a steeper pitch roof.
You can also think of it as one half of a traditional gable roof.
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A shed dormer s eave line is parallel to the eave line of the roof.
Many freestanding sheds have roofs that look similar hence the name of this style of dormer.
Finally if you have a steeper shed roof and lots of snowfall consider snow stops on your roof.
It can be added to most roof styles that have a large enough space on a slope.
If you don t then you could use a roof de icing cable to heat your eaves and slowly melt the ice away.
Here the addition of a shed dormer to an attic space not only floods the once dark room with light but also provides much needed headroom.