It probably is related to a literal roof of a house.
Through the roof meaning.
The top over the passenger section of a vehicle.
To rise to a very high level.
Origin of through the roof this expression originated in the first half of the 1900s.
To get very angry.
Go through the roof to to rise unexpectedly high.
A covering structure of any of various parts of the body roof of the skull.
Fuel prices have gone through the roof since last fall.
Something suggesting a roof.
To an extremely or excessively high level prices went through the roof.
Go through the roof meaning.
To reach extreme heights.
Blandings builds his dream house wrote the knapp sales curves were going through the roof.
To get very angry.
Go through the roof definition.
Both meanings date from the mid twentieth century the first slightly antedating the second.
Also to lose one s temper.
To rise to a very high level.
In 1946 eric hodgins in his popular novel mr.