Saltbox Shed With Different Height Roof

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Saltbox shed with different height roof.

A saltbox style with its long rear slope on the roof is one of the most popular styles for storage sheds. Our how to build saltbox plans design has a true salt box style roof comes with many different standard sizes. A saltbox however is an offset gable roof on walls of different heights. Building a loft in the roof cavity is easy and provides much more storage space than either the gable or saltbox sheds.

Practical and easy to build a saltbox provides plenty of room on a small footprint. Do you want to build a shed that makes a perfect garden shed. Saltbox style storage buildings. A skillion lean to or shed roof has a single slope which means one wall is taller than the opposite wall.

The saltbox roof design offer lots of character and charm to the backyard. A saltbox shed is defined by its long sloping roof on the back and shorter sloped roof on the front. To calculate a saltbox roof select saltbox from the roof type dropdown list or select the corresponding button on the toolbar. So the roof and shed style impact the shed wall height as well as attic or loft storage.

Saltbox roof a saltbox roof is similar to a gable roof but has different slopes and or spans for the front and rear sides of the roof. A gable or gambrel roof usually means the walls are all the same height. Our saltbox sheds feature an extended overhang in the front with an offset roof line for a unique look. This will result in one wall being higher than the other.