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Stop climbing your roof to find the pitch! #roof #tools #diy #construction #home

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Living Lost

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This project provides a simple and safe method to determine the pitch of a roof directly from inside the attic, eliminating the need to climb onto the roof. It involves using a plumb line (such as a chalk line or plumb bob) to establish a true vertical reference and then employing a speed square to read the roof's slope from the rafters or trusses.

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Don't climb on your roof just to find the pitch. Do this right from your attic. So, go ahead and take a chalk line or a plumb bob, hang it from either your rafter or your truss, take your speed square, and run that speed square all the way up to your pivot mark there. And I'll go ahead and read your your common. And your common is what gives you the pitch of your roof. So, butt that up. And as we can see, I have a 4 12. I'm filming a full breakdown of everything that a speed square can do. Go ahead and drop a comment below with questions or confusion that you've ever had while using a speed square. And I'll either make a reel about it, or I'll cover it in my long-form video. All right, I'm going to get out of here. It's hot. Peace.

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