Contrasted to a common saddleback roof or hip roofing mansard roofings use significantly more attic room as a result of the almost vertical base incline.
Modern mansard roof design.
When choosing the covering for a newly built home people seldom think that roofs can offer more than protection of the house and its occupants from outside elements.
In case of the gambrel roof there are no slopes on its remaining faces.
A mansard roof also known as a french roof is a four sided roof with a double slope on each side that meet forming a low pitched roof.
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The other slope is quite flat and it is in such location that it cannot be seen from the ground level.
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The area under the mansard roof which we usually call an attic offers additional living space which is very valuable in modern living and is enjoying great popularity.
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The first slope is very much steep almost vertical.