Front Porch Roof Pitch

This roof pitch and style compliments the home and allows the owners to enjoy the sound of the rain while on their open porch.

Front porch roof pitch.

Strong and sturdy this should do you good in most. The slope is the steepness of your roof and is the ratio between any two points on your roof. It s ok to mix and match roofing materials as you see here. The primary roof is a hip roof.

On this home the roof pitch is the same as that of the gables on the dormers. As aptly shown in this example you can create a big porch space similar to that of a veranda using wooden pillars to support the tin roof. Rise and run for your porch roof your roof s slope also called pitch is determined by the rise and run. In case you are thinking about extending your porch area a tin roof inlaid with tiles can be a great idea.

However you can only use this pitch with built up roofing or specialized synthetic roofing. The minimum pitch for a roof is 1 4 12 which translates to 1 4 inch rise to 12 inches of run. The open front porch below has a combination roof. This can be usually seen on a porch deck or n a long narrow porch.

You run the risk of detracting from the architectural style of your home if you don t do this. We wanted to make the porch roof as steep as possible while keeping the peak of the roof below the wall to roof intersection at the top of the shed roof. Its design is shallow to compliment the design of a house. After a taking some measurements and doing a bit of ciphering we established that the steepest pitch we could use on the porch roof was 4 in 12.

The detached porch below has a metal hip roof. Roof pitch in layman s language simply refers to the steepness of the roof. It is a roof with a sloping surface attached to the upper end of the house wall. The pitch of a roof is arrived at by dividing the vertical rise and its horizontal span or what people in the roofing industry would refer to as the slope.

If the area of the porch is too deep the house roof line will look somewhat high and out of place. By matching the pitch of the gables we were still consistent with the roof. Your porch roof pitch should maintain the same pitch also known as rise and run as the other roof lines on your home or as a minimum the pitch of the roof directly above the porch roof.