Roof Pitch Change Detail

While replacing a roof pitch may seem like a simple task it s far from a casual project.

Roof pitch change detail.

Take off shingles or other roof covering and remove the membrane and sheathing. We need to do something where that change happens so the panels can go down and water can come off hit the lower slope and come off the roof. Use a pry bar to pull loose. We re going to do a pitch transition or change.

You ll have a steeper part of your roof turning into a lower slope so there s a steeper pitch up top and a lower pitch on the bottom. This is a fairly common roof detail. Change the pitch on an existing sloped roof by removing the old roof and framing. A roof pitch is the slant of a roof or how steep a roof s slope is.

See the illustration below. Instead it requires professional plans and big structural changes to a house. We measured from the ridge to the sleepers to get the lengths of the jacks and then cut them and fastened them into place. Roof pitch is determined by ridges walls and rafters inside the roof.

To let the jacks sit plumb on top of the sleepers we angled the level cuts to the 3 1 2 in 12 pitch of the shed roof setting the circular saw to a 16 degree bevel the degree equivalent of a 3 1 2 in 12 pitch. Pitch transitions are a common roof detail. To see how pitch impacts the look of a garage and changes cost click the design center button on our pole barn kits page. We see this quite frequently in log home roofs with porches for example.