To find the angle of a roof in degrees convert the pitch to a slope then convert to degrees by finding the arc tangent of the slope.
Roof pitch conversion.
If you can give them the exact chart and measurement that you like the look of they can work to those specifications.
First convert the pitch to a slope.
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.
Rise run rise run slope.
The charts are there to provide people with an idea of what the actual slope will.
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 following table shows the roof pitch rise in run equivalents for all roof slopes in degrees from 1 to 72.
To do this simply convert the rise and run as a fraction to a decimal form eg.
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.
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.
How to convert roof pitch to degrees.
This means if a roof rises 4 in the length of 12 your roof pitch would be 4 12 or 18 43 degrees.