Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I realized after i posted the picks, the roof looks alot steeper in person. may be a 9/12 pitch. or 12/9…pretty steep. plus i’m afraid of hights so it looks even worse to me.
Originally Posted By: ccoombs This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
We had a family cabin that was the same way…although I think it was taller.
The cabin had this great design. It was glu-lam beams at 4' on center to form the A-frame and a glu-lam cross beam to create the second floor beams. Very clean construction.
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
lkage wrote:
Looks like about a 30/12 pitch.
Lots of those up here in snow country.
i'm in "snow country" and i'v only seen this one. most rooves up here are on ranches or "New Englanders" and are in the normal pitch range. 
Originally Posted By: mcyr This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Jay;
The Architect that designed this house must have been on this whacky tobacky stuff like Larry mentioned.
The roof pitch on the main roof is 60 1/4 degrees or 21/12 pitch, the dormer is 35 1/4 degrees or 8 1/2/12 pitch and the porch is 14 degrees and or 3/12 pitch.
Considering that this is not a true A-frame, because the shrubs are hiding the eight foot walls on the lower level, I would have to say that this design is erratic. The dormers usually are half pitch of the main roofs to keep in perspective aesthetic proportions. This one is no wheres close.
Thought I would pull everyone's rope by knowing how I established the pitches. ha. ha.
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
marcel. i would love to know your “ancient chinese secret” on measuring pitch from just view. with all the different pitches here i half wonder if it was a baked framer passing the cheaba to his roofer buddie as they showed off all the cool stuff they could do with a framing square. “like dude, it’s not even a square, it’s like only half…uh huh uh huh” they must have shingled it with a cherry picker.
Originally Posted By: mcyr This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Jay;
It is not an old Chinese secret, it is that french/American/Canadian ancestry and a lot of building experience.
Let me know if I was right, if that is possible.
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
aaaah. french/canadian? me too. infact the best and fastest roofer i ever met was a one armed machanic named Leucian. with his magnetic hammer, a mouth full of nails, and half a bundle of shingles under his nub, he could roof faster than 2 drunk guy with 4 arms in all. and the side he did hasn’t leaked in the 17 years it’s been up. the other side, well…not so much.
Originally Posted By: mcyr This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Jay; I try to leave these steep pitch roofing jobs to the younger generation now as much as I can. But on the other hand I got sucked over to go re-roof my boss's house up in Greenville, Maine last year and that was a 10/12 pitch. I tell you, this makes you old fast.
Originally Posted By: Jay Moge This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
before i stated that i’m afraid of hights. i’d like to refrase that statement. i’m not afraid of hights, or falling. but i am afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall. when i worked for a roofer he told me "remember Jay, don’t fall, but if you do, keep in mind that your fired just before you hit the ground.
