Here are the equations you may use to solve for the length of the slope and the rafter.
Roof pitch 21 degrees.
Pitch tan angle where angle is the roof pitch expressed in degrees.
Roof pitches ranging from 0 12 0 degrees to 21 12 60 26 degrees.
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.
The value displayed as the rise will be your x.
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.
Use the following formula which also describes a right triangle.
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.
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.
This means if a roof rises 4 in the length of 12 your roof pitch would be 4 12 or 18 43 degrees.
The following table shows the roof pitch rise in run equivalents for all roof slopes in degrees from 1 to 72.
You can also calculate roof pitch even without using a roof slope calculator.
A a roof with a 6 rise for every 12 run has a 6 per foot or 6 in 12 pitch.
This measurement is best done on a bare roof because curled up roofing shingles will impair your measurement.
8 12 pitch 33 75 degrees.
Roof pitch or slope is a measure of vertical rise to horizontal run expressed in inches per foot.
To see roof pitch visual examples how to determine pitch.
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.
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.
Click here to view our roof pitch diagram chart.
Roof pitch to degrees equivalents this drawing demonstrates how many degrees rise for each pitch of a typical roof.
Look at the column labeled pitch then look under degrees to get the corresponding amount of degrees.