Glossary of Roofing Terms
- A-frameAn architectural house style featuring steeply-angled sides (roofline) that usually begin at or near the foundation line, and meet at the top in the shape of the letter A. An A-frame ceiling can be open to the top rafters.
- AAA
- AluminumA non-rusting metal sometimes used for metal roofing and flashing.
- American Arbitration Association
- Apron FlashingMetal flashing used at chimney fronts.
- Architectural Shingle
- ARMA
- Asian traditional style
- Asphalt
- ASTM
- Blow-Offs
- BOMA
- Bonnet roof
- Brake
- Buckling
- Building Code
- Bundle
- Butt Joint
- Butterfly roof
- Button Punch
- Camber
- Canadian Arbitration Association
- Canopy
- Cap Flashing
- Capillary Action
- Caulking
- CCF
- Chalk
- Chalk Line
- Chalking
- Chimney
- Cladding
- Cleat
- Closed Cut Valley
- Counter Flashing
- Crickets
- Cross gabled
- Cross hipped
- Deck
- Dormer
- Drip Edge
- Dutch gable
- East Asian hip-and-gable roof
- End Laps
- EWA
- Exposure
- Fasteners
- FHA
- Flashing
- Florida Energy Systems Consortium
- Gable
- Gambrel
- Granules
- Half-hipped
- Helm roof
- Hidden roof
- Hip
- Hip Legs
- Hip Roof
- Ice Dam
- Karahafu
- L Flashing
- Low Slopes
- Mansard
- Modified bitumen
- Mokoshi
- Monitor roof
- Mono-pitched roof
- MRA — Metal Roofing Alliance
- NRCA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Open Valley
- OSB
- Outshot
- Pyatthat
- Pyramid roof
- Rake Edge
- Roof Louvers
- Roof Plane
- Saltbox
- Saw-tooth
- Shed Roof
- Side Walls
- Soffit Ventilation
- Starter Strip
- Steep-Slope Roofing
- Stepflashing
- Tear-Off
- Tented
- Terrace
- TransitionsWhen a roof plane ties into another roof plane that has a different pitch or slope.
- Underlayments
- Urban Heat Island Effect
- Valleys
- Vapor
- Warm WallThe finished wall inside of a structure, used in roofing to determine how far up the deck to install waterproof underlayments at eaves.
