How To Read Roofing Square

Open the app and select measure your roof.

How to read roofing square. One leg is wider and longer than the other. In most american. This article explains how to make quick use of a framing square and its imprinted data to get some basic roof measurement data like roof pitch or slope rafter lengths and end cuts. The wider leg is called the blade and the narrower one the tongue.

Before you can use the roofing square you need to work out the ratio of the roof pitch. Step 1 work out the ratio of the roof. This is called the pivot. How to read a rafter angle square.

Step 3 template. Use it as a straight edge. How to properly use a roofing square. How to use a framing square and its etched on tables to figure out roof slope rafter lengths.

Estimate the pitch of the roof. Select sketch my roof. Follow the lip and adjacent leg to where they form a 90 degree angle. This edge keeps the rafter angle square from lying flat.

Retrieve your blueprint image by tapping load then selecting the source of the file i e your email dropbox etc. A carpenter s framing square includes some tables stamped right into the tool itself. Find the lip edge. Hold the square in one hand and examine it.

Here s a step by step guide to measuring with blueprints. Because each 100 square feet of roof is one roofing square divide the total area from step 1 by 100. The answer is the number of roofing squares for the roof. Step 2 using the roofing square.