Sloped Roof Plate

Specifically the code text typically reads roofs shall have a design slope of not less than one fourth unit vertical in 12 units horizontal 2 percent slope for drainage.

Sloped roof plate.

Hello i am working on a restaurant with a flat roof 1 4 per ft that slopes front to back. So a roof with four inches of rise every 12 inches horizontally run would have a slope of 4 12 sometimes displayed as 4 12. At the front rear the parapet is currently detailed in a platform manner with a continuous sill plate vert studs and kickers 32 o c. My question is for the side walls parallel to the sloped trusses.

It helps transfer the roof force to the wall and makes it easier to securely toenail the rafter to the wall. The slope of a roof often referred to as the pitch is determined by rise over run the roof s vertical rise in inches for every twelve inches of horizontal length the run. Multiple folded plate sawtooth or barrel vault roofs shall have a c s 1 0 with no reduction in snow load because of slope i e p s p f. Roof slope factor for multiple folded plate sawtooth and barrel vault roofs.