Construction of roof

The roofs of apartment buildings in Russia were made by predominantly two-slope surface, without the overlap. The form of roof was determined by its construction. The most archaic construction both of two-slope surface and four-sloping roof was its device technique on the pillars (wooden ploughs), known in the past to all Slav peoples. The ancient characteristic construction of two-slope surface roof it was [samtsovaya]. As its support served the ends of the logs of front and rear pediments, the gradually shortened to the horse roofs. On them were plotted longitudinal [slegi], which composed the lathing of roof. Is noted for also the ancient method of the device of four-sloping roof the bonfire, when the frame of roof was seemingly pyramidal continuation of the walls of the felling, whose coronas were gradually shortened upwards, forming tetrahedral pyramid. In the second-half XIX v. such roofs were encountered only during the economic buildings predominantly in the Central Russian strip.

At the end THE XIX - the beginning OF THE XX substances of most common becomes the rafter construction of roof, which requires less than expenditures for lumber, and in the second-half XIX v. it gradually displaces