Roof Structure

Here's a few shots of the roofing. You may notice that the eaves are built into the roof. We had a roofer do the metal work to complete them and I'm quite happy with the results. I don't like adding gutters to the outside of a roof. To me it looks like an afterthought and we know we want to capture the rain water and use it as much as possible.
We also chose to go with steel roofing with hidden screws. The steel is 26 gauge, which is stronger than the standard 28 gauge) and with hidden screws it should last a very very long time.



As for the roof structure, since our rafters are exposed to the interior of the house we were able to keep the roof structure simple and layered. Here's the layers.

steel roofing
1x4 strapping
1/2" plywood
2x8" box containing 2x 3.3" of the iso-board foam (same stuff as the walls)
6-mil vapor barrier
tongue & grove pine
rafters