wood rack angle

gambrel roof, each chord is 5', and 1' overhang, so... total of 10x22x2=20x44, no?

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neds gonna have a roof !

i wont say anything about the time line , cuz i dont do heights either

Jim DeLaney said:

Wow, that must be some huge overhang!

Didn't you say earlier that the building was 12 X 20? That's only 240 ft², so how do you get 880 ft² of roof on it? ...or did you sneak in a bigger shop when we were'nt looking?

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The square footage of any building is not representative of square footage of roof.....I always get a chuckle when someone calls me and asks how much it would cost to shingle their XXXX amount of square foot home. I ask, what pitch (they ) how much overhang (they ) valleys? dunno

.....so....I always measure square footage of roof.

Steve Ash said:

The square footage of any building is not representative of square footage of roof.....I always get a chuckle when someone calls me and asks how much it would cost to shingle their XXXX amount of square foot home. I ask, what pitch (they ) how much overhang (they ) valleys? dunno

.....so....I always measure square footage of roof.

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Yeah, I know about that. As I said earlier, my 240 ft² gambrel roofed barn needed 400 ft² (4 squares) of roofing (minimal overhang). I was just trying to figure out what kind of a gambrel roof there is on Ned's 240 ft² shop that takes over twice that much.

A simple gambrel for that size barn would be four panels, each about 5' X 22' (allowing for a 12" overhang all around) , so that'd be 440 ft², or less than five squares, allowing for trim and ridge. I was wondering what the other 4+ squares are for.

Think about it, A simple gable roof on a 12' wide building, with a 22 foot length of roof, would result in a 1:1.05 pitch (19 foot rise and 20 foot run) if it required 880 ft² of roofing. That's a pitch angle of 72.5°!