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Is roof pitch measure from walls or eaves
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*Are you still trying to figure out your gable ends?
*Johnnie, Pitch is figured from any line paralell to the axis of the roof. I'm not sure I understand you're question. Do you have a specific problem that you are working on?Jon
*Pitch is rise over run.Take a framing square set it on a level held up to the rakeread it orstand on the roofhold a four foot level level with one end on the roofmeasure plumb down from the end of itdivide by fouryou got your pitch
*Block mason in hurry to grab money and run, Trusses have not arrive yet. Do not want mason to get too high on gables or too low.
*johnnie... here's a link to joe fuscoe's roof framing discussions..a good place to start..http://www.josephfusco.com/
*Mike, I can't believe you sent him to Joe's site. i I get confused reading that fixed/floating ridge or whatever...Johnnie. Your question indicates that you don't have a clue. Pitch is a ratio that is relevent to all parts of the roof. You probably should have had the trusses onsite before the block was started. The details of the relationship between the block and the trusses should have been completed before the work started. At this point, you owe the block layer and will owe him if he has to change anything.Pay him!blue
*blue... i got the same impression as you...and joe's place was as good as any for him to start..Johnnie.. are you sure you're going to have block on your gable ends?or are you going to use gable end trusses?blue's right.. you don't need to know pitch.. you need the trusses...
*Mr. Devil,
View Image © 1999-2001"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it." Aristotle
*joe... i pick column a
*Mike,
View Image © 1999-2001"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it." Aristotle
*ah,... thanks...( do i duke you now or on the way out ?)
*Mike,
View Image © 1999-2001"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it." Aristotle
*Joe, I checked in to those links. I'd commit Hari Kari rather than to study that stuff that hard to understand it all. I guess I'm just not into trig. I'm sure your site is great for those inclined toward trig.I did really want to know your simple formula for determining the plywood cut on an unequal pitch roof. I just finished one today that had a main of 7/12 and the minor roofs were 9/12. I know how to figure the plywood cuts using several steps involving the ratio and proportion method. But, as I recall, you and Ken had a much simpler method. In fact, I believe your method was slightly more streamlined than Ken's, which surprised me, given your propensity for the creation of very involved formulas.Anyways, would you mind running that formula by me again? I'll gladly retract any bad things that I have said about you and put you down on my Christmas Milkbone list.blue
*blue,Now there's a paradox.He wants to answer, but doesn't want to be on blue's Xmas Milkbone list. What does one do in these awkward circumstances?Ken
*joe.. that was duke.. as in dukeing the maitre'd'..for sending the waiter over...c'mon .. i ain't that old.. they still duke in the big apple...
*propensity??Come on, you don't really talk like that, do you???
*Talk like what Mike? What word(s) would you substitute for propensity? Inclination? I'm not exactly a walking Thesaraus. I just write what I think and hope the spelling is close enough.blue
*You made me run for my dictionary, Blue!
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Is roof pitch measure from walls or eaves