What gutter parts need to be purchased and in what quantity? How many meters of pipe and what diameter should you order so that you don’t worry about the reliability of drainage even in showers and snowfalls? How exactly to measure the roof if you are not a builder, but decided to handle it yourself? Calculating the number and parameters of the gutter system components for your home is not so easy. But, having minimal knowledge of mathematics and armed with measuring instruments, you can do it yourself. What you need to consider, what to focus on will be discussed below.
Determining the area of the roof slope
First of all, you need to calculate the area of \ u200b \ u200bthe slope of your roof, in other words, the area of \ u200b \ u200bthe roof. All other calculations will depend on this figure. To begin with, let’s determine which type the roof belongs to by the number of slopes.
- Shed roof is usually used in the construction of utility rooms, attics, terraces. Its essence lies in the fact that it rests on two walls of the building, which have different heights.
- Gable roof is the most common and simplest option, its slopes can be the same size or one larger, the other smaller.
- Hip roof – as a rule, it consists of two triangular slopes and two trapezoidal (this type is called a hip roof in construction), or of four triangular (hip roof). Hip is more common.
- Composite roofs. This type is the roof of private houses, which have a large number of slopes in the form of different geometric shapes.
Whatever type the roof of your house belongs to, the essence of measuring the area of the slope in all cases is simple: you need to conditionally divide the roof into its constituent geometric shapes, calculate the area of each of them and sum up the resulting figures. Let us recall the formulas for calculating the area of different geometric shapes that can make up a roof.
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