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October 17, 2011 (Regular Meeting) <br />Page 825 <br />appears on expensive homes; the irregular shaped cedar shakes being the <br />most expensive. <br />ROOFING STRUCTURE <br />BOWSTRING TRUSS - A large curved truss common to airplane hangars and Quonset <br />huts. <br />BOWSTRING <br />FLAT ROOF - A flat roof refers to a structural material, which spans a <br />horizontal or nearly horizontal position from wall -to -wall or beam -to -beam. <br />FLAT <br />ROOFING STRUCTURE, cont. <br />GABLE - A gable roof is pitched (pitch is the slope of the roof) in two <br />directions. <br />GABLE <br />GAMBREL - A type of roof which has its slope broken by an obtuse angle so <br />that the lower slope is steeper than the upper slope; a roof with two <br />pitches such as is common on a barn. <br />GAMBREL <br />