Roof Pitch Conversion

Rise run rise run slope.

Roof pitch conversion.

Roof pitch conversion charts are very useful for one thing they give you all the information that you need to provide to the professionals. To do this simply convert the rise and run as a fraction to a decimal form eg. The following table shows the roof pitch rise in run equivalents for all roof slopes in degrees from 1 to 72. This means if a roof rises 4 in the length of 12 your roof pitch would be 4 12 or 18 43 degrees.

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 charts are there to provide people with an idea of what the actual slope will. 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. How to convert roof pitch to degrees.

With the use of this converter it will be easier for you to locate a 30 degree roof pitch 20 degree roof pitch 25 degree roof pitch or a 15 degree roof pitch. 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. First convert the pitch to a slope. 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.