To find the amount of plywood needed to cover a roof start by finding the area of the roof.
Squares in roof 2500 with 5 12 pitch.
A 12 in 12 pitch is a steep 45 degree angle roof.
The problem is my roofer is saying only 41 squares are needed.
Get your roof size by using this roof pitch calculator.
Thus a moderate 6 in 12 roof pitch means that the roof rises 6 inches vertically for every 12 horizontal inches it runs.
A roof s pitch is determined by how much it rises vertically for every foot it runs horizontally.
However shingles are packaged in a way that they are light enough for the average person to carry around.
Works with a new roof re roof shingles or metal.
Most composition shingles are 3 bundles per square most of the 40yr composition shingles are 4 bundles per square some 5.
Roof pitch is the measurement of a roof s vertical rise divided by its horizontal run.
See the image below for more explanation on rise run and pitch.
The numbers i used are based on the proposal from my roofer.
Use our roof pitch calculator to find the pitch of your roof.
Next multiply the footprint of the roof by the multiplier below for your roof pitch to find the overall roof area.
Bundles of roofing material per square.
It is often compared to slope but is not exactly the same.
Can you help me reconcile the difference.
Things you will need steel tape measure.
Multiply the number of roofing squares for a medium pitch roof by 1 12 to 1 25 or by 1 3 to 1 42 for a high pitch roof to get the square roof area.
Enter the approximate value for how many square feet the house has in the first number box.
Instructions for the shingle calculator.
Once the area is known divide by the area of a 4 8 sheet to find how much sheathing is needed.
As a rule of thumb there are 3 bundles to a square assuming that you are using three tab strip shingles.
100 1 054 105 4ft 2.
Shingle roofs typically have a life span of 15 30 years while membrane roofs usually last 5 15 years.
5 feet x 20 feet 100 square feet or 1 roofing square 2 feet x 50 feet 100 square feet or 1 roofing square 50 feet x 50 feet 2500 square feet so 2500 100 25 roofing squares.
The pitch of the roof is the rise over a 12 inch run.
Roof is 6 12 pitch and measures at 2 400 square feet so 2400 x 1 12 2 688 2 88 sqs added for pitch.
Find the area of a roof.
3698 sq ft with predominant 10 12 pitch.
Multiply the length of the roof in feet by the width of the roof in feet to find the area of the roof in square feet.
Select how steep the roof is.
According to your calculator my actual square feet of house is 4807 5 numbers of squares needed is 53.
A square of shingles is the number of shingles needed to cover 100 sq feet of roof area.
Roof pitch area multipliers.