How to do a pitched roof?

[Concordmommy]

I want to build a coop with a pitched roof--but I dont know what angle you're supposed to do it at? I know that sentence was so not grammatically correct!

does it matter?

 

[Rock Wyandotte]

It depends how much snow you get in the winter. Are you in Concord, NH?

 

[patandchickens]

3 or 4 in 12 (that means, it drops 3 or 4 feet vertically for every 12 feet of horizontal run) is a sort of middle of the road pitch.

But it really depends on what kind of snow load it'll need to withstand AND then on how heavily you want to engineer the supporting structure. You can have a very low pitch, almost flat, roof in a high snow load area... you just need to have really strong rafters or trusses, very close together

(which gets expensive and annoying to build).

I'd suggest looking around at what other people build in your area of a comparable size, that lasts thru many winters, and build something like that

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[Concordmommy]

Actually, no not NH--I'm in CA. So no snow unless some serious climate change happens!

 

[giasmom]

I'd say, just enough for all that liquid sunshine to run off of would be fine !

 

[Davaroo]

In fact Id look at a simple shed roof or combination roof. Easier to build and less material involved.

Go here and look at the first building shown.

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/ppp/ppp4.html

Its a shed type roof.
Pitch at about 3 or 4 by the look of it.

 

[Terri]

here mine, shed roof

 

[OrpingtonManor]

Quote:
Hi neighbor!

I am in Martinez.
I pitched my coop roof the same as my house.

 

[Over Easy in Adna]

With my skills, a pitched roof is easy. I just try my hardest to make it flat and level, and since I absolutely suck at building, it turns out with a nice pitch to it.

 

[Concordmommy]

Quote:
Hi neighbor!

I am in Martinez.
I pitched my coop roof the same as my house.

Howdy!!

Ok, so since you're in Martinez--is that Yardbirds over there still open or is it completely gone already? I went to the one in Concord and got some STEALS on a few things like hinges and a few other things. Wondering if the one in Martinez is gone yet...thanks!