On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 07:16:59 -0600, "Jerry Built"
] wrote:

T i m wrote:
The bloke next door to a mate has had an extension stuck on the side
of his house. The pitched roof was extended over the new extension (it
was, honest g) with a new 'hip' (is that what they call the slopey
bit on the end?).

I don't know what you are talking about - is it a hipped roof or not?

Hi 'Jerry', not being an architect, builder or roofer I'm not exactly
sure what it's called? Imagine a std semi house roof (slopes front and
back) and the end tapers down like the front and back? The 'ridge'
that goes from the top to the house corner .. is that called a 'hip'
(it was just something I heard mention). ;-)


Looking at it it would appear that they have used 'ridge' tiles on the
hip, so they seem to stick up more than needed?

Did the builders do this because "you can't get the lower profile ones
any more" (often an answer to such questions), they didn't know there
were different angles or they simply didn't have the right ones on the
truck so couldn't be bothered?

Any decent builder will use the proper stuff. There's a wide variety
available, albeit much of it is "concrete".

This was probably pretty stock red concrete roof tiles with matching
sort of 'rough finished' (not red-smooth like on my slate roof) ridge
'tiles' (if that's what you call the rounded things on the top of the
ridge .. 'tiles' ?)

It just looks like they have used the same pattern down the diags as
the ridge and that looks different to all the houses around it?

All the best ..

T i m