2 12 Pitch Metal Roof

A pitch of 2 12 is the minimum pitch for shingles made of asphalt so your roof just barely makes the cut off for one of the most popular roofing material options.

2 12 pitch metal roof.

The picture below shows the pitch of a 7 12 roof slope meaning that for 12 of horizontal measurement roof run the vertical measurement roof rise is 7. If a roof rises 2 in a length of 12 this is 2 12 roof pitch. Pitch is the term used to describe the angle slope or slant of your roof. Or the colon can replace the slash as in 2 12 or 7 12.

The roof 50. The ratio can be indicated by a division slash separating the numbers such as 2 12 or 7 12. We have a prairie style house in east tennessee mixed humid climate zone 4a built in the 1950s with a low slope roof pitch of 1 5 per 12. This measurement is best done on a bare roof because curled up roofing shingles will impair your measurement.

That said if you want to have a metal roof that is worth its weight in value that doesn t come with a ton of problems the minimum pitch for metal roof applications should be kept at around at least a 3 1 2 12 three and a half on 12 or above. Even though manufacturers say 1 4 12 is acceptable. Resilient asphalt shingles lie much flatter to the substrate than slate tile and concrete which keeps water from being easily blown under them.