Reading Roofing Plans

These pages will include an index of plan sheets and sometimes their contents.

Reading roofing plans.

Select the blueprint you wish to measure. The architectural plans are where you will see where your office is where the bathrooms are in relation to workstations etc. Open the app and select measure your roof. Retrieve your blueprint image by tapping load then selecting the source of the file i e your email dropbox etc.

The first thing to check is what scale the roof is drawn in. 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. 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. Most include a cover page time block key notes general notes revision block drawing scale and a legend.

This page is very similar to the cover of a book. Once you move into reading the actual architectural sheets it s important to know that architectural plans are labeled with an a a 001 or a1 x a2 x etc. In this drawing a 1 8 scale ruler is being used. Step 1 read the cover sheet.

Many cover sheets will also include a drawing of the finished product showing you what the house will look like after it is constructed and landscaped 1 x research sourcestep 2 read the plan index. Select sketch my roof. If you only have a roof plan and no elevation or foundation plans then you will have no way to verify the scale. You will have to obtain additional plans or proceed with the scale given and make a note such as scale not verified.

To accurately measure a roof plan one of first things to verify is the scale the plan is drawn with.