Glossary
- Architecture: The art and science of building
- Barge Board: or bargeboard: board that hangs from the projecting end of a gable roof, often ornamental.
- Box Gutter: A rectangular-shaped timber roof gutter recessed in the eaves to conceal them and to protect them from falling foliage.
- Chimney: A structure, generally of brick or stone, containing a passage through which the smoke and waste gases from a fire or furnace may escape
- Downpipe: A vertical pipe used to carry rainwater from the roof to either the ground or a drainage system.
- Eaves: The lower part of a roof that overhangs the walls
- Flashing: A thin, impervious sheet of material placed in construction to prevent water penetration or direct the flow of water. Flashing is used especially at roof hips and valleys, roof penetrations, joints between a roof and a vertical wall, and in masonry walls to direct the flow of water and moisture.
- Gable: The triangular end of a house formed at the end of a pitched roof, from eaves level to apex
Galvanise: The coating of iron or steel with zinc to protect it from rust.- Guttering:
- Hip Roof: A roof with an end roughly pyramidal in shape, with surfaces sloping upwards from all three eaves
- Parapet: A low wall at the edge of a roof, balcony, bridge, or terrace
- Pitch: The angle of inclination to the horizon of a roof
- Porch: A covered entrance to a building
- Profile: The shape to which rolled metal roofing and guttering is matched
- Ridge Capping: A layer of metal topping the ridge of a roof.
- Roll-forming: Rolling coated steel into different profiles for roofing, cladding, metal decking or fences
- Sheet and strip: Flat rolled steel product less than 3mm thick.