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.
Pitch roof ratios.
A roof that rises 4 inches for every 1 foot or 12 inches of run is said to have a 4 in 12 slope.
It can be assessed in two ways either as the angle the rafter makes with the horizontal or the proportion between the rise and the run of the roof.
Pitch is written assuming a run of a foot or 12 inches so the ratio describes how much the roof rises for every foot of its run.
The slope ratio represents a certain amount of vertical rise for every 12 inches of horizontal run.
Often you express roof pitch as the ratio between the rise and the run in the form of x 12.
However most often a ratio of pitch also fraction is slang used for the more useful slope of rise over run of just one side half the span of a dual pitched roof.
Pitch is thus the ratio of the rise in inches to a 12 inch run and is often expressed using a semicolon for example 6 12.
For example if the roof rises 4 feet and the span is 16 feet twice the run then the pitch is 4 16 or 1 4.
Pitch is the incline of the roof represented as the ratio of rise to the span twice the run.
A ratio of 1 1 62 is known as the golden ratio and therefore the vast majority of roof.
For example a pitch 1 12 means that per every twelve yards of building length the rise will be equal to one yard.
You can assess this in two ways either as the roof pitch angles which the rafters make with the horizontal or the proportion between the run and the rise of the roof.
If a roof increases in height by four inches for every foot of horizontal run it is considered to have a 4 in 12 pitch or just a 4 pitch talk in terms of pitches and you will always be understood in the roofing universe.
The same pitch is also sometimes written as 4 12 4 in 12 or 4 over 12.
Roof pitch is simply the slope created by the rafter.
Roof pitch refers to the slope which the rafter creates.
Roof pitch is often expressed as a ratio between rise and run in the form of x 12.
Roof pitch or slope is a measure of vertical rise to horizontal run expressed in inches per foot.
For example a roof that rises 4 inches for every 12 inches of run has a 4 12 pitch.
The pitch of a roof is its vertical rise over its horizontal span.
A a roof with a 6 rise for every 12 run has a 6 per foot or 6 in 12 pitch.
