Reading Roofing Blueprints

This course will help you to organize and apply blueprint reading skills towards preparing accurate forecasts of the materials labor and costs involved in a project.

Reading roofing blueprints.

Soil and rock construction materials by greg mcnally. Mastery of blueprint reading will come with practice and with using blueprints on the job. This online blueprint reading course is designed to provide you with that foundation knowledge and enough practice at reading blueprints to get you started. In this drawing a 1 8 scale ruler is being used.

Showing you guys everything you need to know along the way. The next thing to determine is the roof pitch see how to determine roof pitch the easiest and most accurate method to measuring a roof plan is to square everything off. These plans contain important details but we will cover those details in a future blog post. There are many additional plans that supplement architectural plans.

How to measure residential roof plans. Blueprint reading is not terribly difficult but it does require practice and some basic knowledge of blueprints. All construction professionals regardless of whether they are working in the field or in the office must know how to read blueprints. 110 civil site work blueprint reading and materials textbook.

In order to be hired as a licensed contractor for major construction projects it s important that you are able to read blueprints and use them without misunderstandings. In this mini series we re going to cover construction blueprints from start to finish. The roof below is drawn in 1 8 scale this means that if using a regular tape measure that 1 inch would equal 8 feet. A skill every contractor and construction professional needs to get ahead.

The csls blueprint reading course is an introductory course that provides the blueprint fundamentals needed for residential and light commercial projects. The first thing to check is what scale the roof is drawn in.