Standard Metal Building Roof Pitch

At r m steel we offer a variety of metal building roof pitch options providing your metal building with the style and look you want.

Standard metal building roof pitch.

Low slope or flat roofs should not be roofed with asphalt shingles because it is much easier for water to infiltrate the roofing material on a roof with a shallow pitch. Asphalt shingles are appropriate on roofs with conventional pitches between 4 12 and 9 12. Minimum pitch for metal roof for the most part the minimum pitch for metal roof installations depends on what kind of material you are installing and the method in which the material is being fastened. Local snow codes are set for this exact reason.

There are some standing seam metal roofing options available from atas and other manufacturers that can be installed on a roof with pitch of 1 12. Roofs with a 1 12 roof pitch cost less because they reduce the amount of material needed. There are advantages and disadvantages to consider with both higher and lower roof pitches. The slope of a steel building s roof is expressed by a ratio called roof pitch which indicates the number of inches a roof rises vertically for every 12 inches it runs horizontally.

There are advantages to both low and high pitched roofs standard roof pitch is 1 12. The minimum pitch for metal roof shingles and lapped non soldered panels is 3 12. Though they add to the cost of the building higher pitched roofs increase both the total cubic footage and the maximum inside clearance for relatively little money. It really doesn t matter if you have a 1 12 roof pitch or a 6 12 pitch as long as the building is engineered to code.

In fact mini storage buildings are designed with a standard lower pitch of 5 12 because owners want to avoid the snow falling in front of the individual unit doors.