The picture below shows the pitch of a 7 12 roof slope meaning that for 12 of horizontal measurement roof run the vertical measurement roof rise is 7.
Roof 48 degree pitch.
Now divide the rise by the multiplier to get the pitch eg.
Look at the column labeled pitch then look under degrees to get the corresponding amount of degrees.
Measurement of your house roof pitch is one of the most important things while constructing pitched roof.
With the use of this converter it will be easier for you to locate a 30 degree roof pitch 20 degree roof pitch 25 degree roof pitch or a 15 degree roof pitch.
This means if a roof rises 4 in the length of 12 your roof pitch would be 4 12 or 18 43 degrees.
How roof pitch manifests itself in various roof types.
Roof pitch varies depending on culture climate style and available materials.
Contemporary houses often have flat roofs which shouldn t be completely flat but should be around 1 40.
The roof pitch calculator is a convenient online tool you can use to quickly assess the pitch of your roof to determine the length of rafters you need.
Roof angles and rafter plumb cuts.
48 10 4 8.
In the usa the range of standard pitches is anywhere between 4 12 and 9 12.
Enter base length to calculate rise and diagonal for current pitch angle.
This measurement is best done on a bare roof because curled up roofing shingles will impair your measurement.
Visit this page on your phone to directly measure pitch and angles.
There is no standard universal roof pitch.
The following table shows the roof pitch rise in run equivalents for all roof slopes in degrees from 1 to 72.
Set bevel gauge directly from phone or tablet screen.
On blue prints architects engineers usually display the pitch of a roof in the format shown on the image where number 4 represents a rise and number 12 represents a length.
You have to pay higher cost for steeper pitch.
Since pitch is the rise over a 12 inch run divide the run by 12 to get the multiplier in this case 120 12 10.
In the uk the typical house has a pitch between 40 50 although 45 should be avoided.
Other than the 45 roof slope which is 12 in 12 none of the standard roof pitches 5 in 12 6 in 12 etc are equal to a whole degree.
However if you to do the process using your own knowledge you can still convert pitch to degrees by dividing the rise and run and get its corresponding measurement.
The pitch of this roof is 4 8 12.
The calculator above can handle much of this math.
8 12 pitch 33 75 degrees.
Select inches to enter decimal inches or millimeters for metric.
12 pitch 45 degrees 11 pitch 42 5 degrees 10 pitch 40 degrees 9 pitch 37 degrees 8 pitch 33 75 degrees 7 pitch 30 5 degrees 6 pitch 26 5 degrees 5 pitch 22 5 degrees 4 pitch 18 5 degrees 3 pitch 14 degrees 2 pitch 9 5 degrees 1 pitch 4 5 degrees 0 pitch 0 degrees.