Portico Roof Pitch

Pent roof is a collection of low mono pitched roofs often seen on residential terraces.

Portico roof pitch.

The slope is the steepness of your roof and is the ratio between any two points on your roof. They can be seen on many ranch homes and porches throughout the country. The pitch of these roofs can range from a minimum of 3 4 to very steep depending on local building codes. In our case for every 12 our roof goes down 5 or a 5 12 pitch.

A frame roof is the sharpest gable style roof resembling the shape of the letter a. The minimum pitch for a roof is 1 4 12 which translates to 1 4 inch rise to 12 inches of run. After a quick google search i found that the angle of the cut on a 5 12 pitch is 22 5. So i set the angle on my miter saw to 22 5 cut two 2x4s and put them together.

We framed around the existing step. A gable roof is a traditional triangle shaped roof that can range from a medium pitch to sharp angled roofs. Gable roofs are simple and fast to construct and usually offer more space beneath the roof itself. Design build or remodel a portico a small porch protected by a column supported roof.

Rise and run for your porch roof your roof s slope also called pitch is determined by the rise and run. Pitch can be derived by the measuring how far an angle drops every 12 inches. The calculator above can handle much of this math. Here is the before.

48 10 4 8. Initially we were going to remove the cement step but decided that it was in decent shape and would provide a solid base for the new wider step so we left it. A 7 12 roof normally expressed as a ratio means that for every 12 inches horizontally the run your roof rises 7 inches. Now divide the rise by the multiplier to get the pitch eg.

It s crazy how a building a portico a little roof and two new columns can transform the front of a home. While the home s primary roof is a more steeply pitched hip roof the porch roof does not need to be the same pitch. The detached porch below has a metal hip roof. Since pitch is the rise over a 12 inch run divide the run by 12 to get the multiplier in this case 120 12 10.

Building a portico isn t as simple as throwing up a few columns and a roof. By matching the pitch of the gables we were still consistent with the roof. The pitch of this roof is 4 8 12.