How To Figure Gable End Siding

Measure the height of the wall from ground level to the top of the eaves the point where the lowest part of.

How to figure gable end siding. Base x height 2 a gable is a triangle. Divide this by the board length of your siding 123 43 12 10 29 ideally without any waste it would take 10 and one third lengths of boards to cover this gable. By this amount and this will give you the lineal feet of siding needed to cover the gable 72 1 743 123 43 sq. Multiply the square footage of the gable area of 72 sq.

This is typically the width of the building. How to figure out the siding angle for a gable 1. Take half the length of the gable wall and convert it to inches. Hold one edge of the level against the surface of your roof along the edge above the gable and adjust it until the.

144 12 12. Then i draw a plumb line up to the rake on the high side. Enter the length of the wall. 12 x 8 1 4 with an exposure of 7.

72 12 6 at the highest point the gable is 6 high. Hang a plumb bob from the other end of the level. Multiply this 12 by the roof pitch rise. 24 2 12 12 12 144 divide this amount by the run of the roof pitch.

Inches enter the exposed face of the board. Calculating the gable s square footage. 12 6 72 convert the inches back to feet. Siding length siding width and exposure need to be entered in inches and in decimal format.

Measure the width of the wall below the gable. It can be used for any type of siding that comes in boards of one length. I strike that plumb line at an even foot increment like 5 ft 6 ft 7 ft or even 8 ft if i can reach out that far and the gable is wide enough. A simple siding calculator that will calculate the amount of boards needed to cover a gable.

With a long level sometimes an 8 ft er i mark a horizontal line on the wall butting one end against the rake. Most commonly used board. Feet inches enter the rise of the roof pitch rise 12 enter the length of the board.