- Eave
- The lower edge of a sloping roof, the part that projects beyond the wall (NRCA).
- Rake
- The sloped edge of a roof at or next to the first or last rafter (NRCA).
- Ridge
- The highest point on a roof, the horizontal line where two roof areas meet (NRCA).
- Hip
- The sloping line along the outer angle where two sloping sides of a roof meet, with eaves that meet at a right angle (NRCA).
- Valley
- The internal angle where two sloping roof planes intersect (NRCA).
- Leg
- One straight section of a formed profile. AFS letters the legs A, B, C in drawing order from one free edge to the other.
- Mold line
- The theoretical sharp corner to which AFS measures every leg of a profile.
- Girth
- In AFS quoting, the sum of the legs plus a hem allowance for each hem; the allowance is a quoting simplification, not a physical bend deduction.
- Hem
- A free edge folded back on itself. FlashDraft offers open, smashed and teardrop hems, all drawn rounded.
- Step flashing
- Individual sheet-metal pieces along the slope of a roof, overlapped and stepped up a wall, chimney or dormer (NRCA).
- Lap
- The part of a component that overlaps or covers part of another component (NRCA).
- Flange
- The projecting edge of a rigid or semirigid component, such as an edge metal flashing flange (NRCA).