Two most common methods 4 12 or 4 12 are used for marking the pitch of a roof.
Roof pitch vs angle chart.
Roof pitch is used to describe the slope or angle of the roof.
Roof pitch or slope is a measure of vertical rise to horizontal run expressed in inches per foot.
Tap the button to start measuring and lay your device on an angle roof to measure pitch and angle and animate the diagram.
With a mobile device a button will appear.
What is a 4 12 pitch.
We included a roof pitch chart below the 7 12 example image and the calculator below that.
Roof pitch angle and slope factor charts.
Pitch tan angle where angle is the roof pitch expressed in degrees.
If this isn t practical then perform the same measurement on the underside of the roof.
Visit this page on your phone to directly measure pitch and angles.
If you want to find the roof pitch in the form of x 12 simply calculate the pitch and substitute 12 for the run length.
While measuring tap to hear the spoken angle continuously as it changes.
Roof pitch is a term describing how steep or flat your roof slope is.
The combination of two numbers are used to display or show the roof pitch.
The value displayed as the rise will be your x.
A 4 12 roof pitch is referred to as the roof rises 4 inches in height for every 12 inches as it measured horizontally from the edge of the roof to the centerline.
Roof angles and rafter plumb cuts.