How To Measure The Area Of Your Roof

Climb to the top of your roof.

How to measure the area of your roof. To calculate the roof area if you have a seat roof. Measuring your roof from the ground 1. To find the pitch of your roof you ll first. Front of the roof 12 x 6 72 square meters m.

8 inches and you have an 8 in 12 pitch. Use a pitch. In the construction industry roofs are measured in squares one square equals 100 square feet. Pitch measurement method 1.

Take the area of the roof s footprint say it s 5 000 square feet and multiply 5 000 by 1 118. Calculate the pitch of the roof. To calculate the area of your roof first you ll need to calculate the pitch of it. X ceiling width 12 meters.

First use your measuring tape to measure 12 inches on your large level and make a mark at the 12 inch line. After you ve done this you can click along the outer edge of the roof that you wish to calculate the area for. That measurement is the number of inches the roof rises in 12 inches. Therefore mark off 12 inches on the level and place it down horizontally against the roof rafter.

Some homes will have roofs with multiple pitches. Next place your ladder against your house at the gable end. Y 6 meters from ceiling to ceiling where the roof sides meet. The length l times the height h of a triangle is twice its area a2.

L 30 feet h 12 feet 30 12 2 180 square feet. And for a roof with a slope of 6 12 that number 1 118 is your roof slope multiplier. And that s the number you were looking for. 1 roof square 100 square feet.

That gives you 5 590 square feet which is the actual area of the surface of the roof. The pitch is the steepness of the roof. Back of the roof 12 x 6 72 square meters m. On a ladder beside the roof place the level a foot or so up the roof hold it level and measure from the 12 inch mark on the level s bottom straight down to the roof.

The highest point of a roof. If this distance measures 4 inches you have a 4 in 12 pitch. Measure the width and length of each side of the roof. So if you divide your answer of a product of length times height by two you will get the area of a triangle.

Find the length and width of the building s exterior walls. Next measure vertically from the 12 inch mark on the level straight up to the underside of the rafter as illustrated below. Stretch your tape measure along the walls from end to end. Each time you add points the area will update and there is a box below that will convert this into acres meters kilometers miles and finally square feet.