Unequal Pitch Hip Roof

The most common parameter is to maintain an equal ridge height over building sections with differing spans.

Unequal pitch hip roof.

Select the following information by using the drop downs to enter values in feet and inches. To maintain a consistant ridge height in these situations the roof pitch must be adjusted. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. We ll use the 12 as the rotation point on the framing square and move the other end of the framing square to the edge of the hip rafter material using the 6 rotation dimension.

Main roof rise 8 run 12 pitch. All formulae are below the calculator. Determining the slope and skew angles related to hip and valley beams can be a challenge made even more difficult when the roof slopes on each side if the hip or valley are different. One of users asked us to create calculator which will help him estimate hip roof parameters like rafter s lengths roof rise and roof area.

To get results you need to provide roof base dimensions length and width and roof pitch we assume it is identical for all sides. The pitch of the unequal hip rafter can be expressed in relation to either the main roof or the secondary roof. For example in an equal hip roof with an 8 12 pitch the pitch of the hip rafter would be 8 17. The following example will make clear the method of attack where it is desired to develop a constant for hip or valley in terms of the common rafter of one of the pitches.

Minor roof rise 5 run 6 5 12 pitch. If it is required to continue the tile courses in line around the hip line and the roof pitches at each face are unequal it will be necessary to set out the tile batten gauge on the lesser pitch first. But here it will be different since the hip rafter doesn t lie at 45 degrees to the commons. Next click on the hip angles button and then click on the hip valley rafter slope angle text.

Although uncommon there are situations where architectural parameters require off angle hip and valley roof construction. It will display the framing square usage for the slope angle of the hip rafter 27 50055 6 12. Then the battens on the steeper pitch can be fixed in line with the first battens.