Small Single Pitch Porch Roof

I show how i construct it showning in detail how to do the lead flashing.

Small single pitch porch roof.

The screened porch on the home below also has a hip roof. Roofs on victorian era houses were often sharply angled with a steep pitch. The slope is the steepness of your roof and is the ratio between any two points on your roof. On this home the roof pitch is the same as that of the gables on the dormers.

A 7 12 roof normally expressed as a ratio means that for every 12 inches horizontally the run your roof rises 7 inches. The minimum pitch for a roof is 1 4 12 which translates to 1 4 inch rise to 12 inches of run. By matching the pitch of the gables we were still consistent with the roof. Rise and run for your porch roof your roof s slope also called pitch is determined by the rise and run.

Visually this roof appears flat. This is part two of the porch build where i am doing the roof. This pitch might be as low as 1 12. Think of a classic addams family haunted house with its soaring peaks and you have a.

While the home s primary roof is a more steeply pitched hip roof the porch roof does not need to be the same pitch. Just extending your home s roof over the porch area may result in not having sufficient height underneath depending on the depth of your porch. It was fashionable for modern style homes built in the 1960s to have little pitch just a barely negligible slope to help drain water.