App Detail » BuildersCalcsRoof

What's New

Updated to work correctly on all iPhone screens and general improvements to the help files and made easier to use.

App Description

BuildersCalcs ROOF   With this IPhone App you can forget "Guesswork" and "Trial and Error" and make your
steel square redundant forever and bin the headache pills, because anyone with a Pencil,Bevel and Saw can
cut a "Hip Roof " with ease. This IPhone App is a Professional Roofing Carpenter in your pocket. Just enter
the relevant Dimensions into the program and be instantly provided with every Rafter, Hip and Jack Rafter
Length and Overhang Length plus all the Angle cuts and Birdsmouth Dimensions.
Will accommodate any size of Timber or Building including Small like Dolls houses / Modelwork and Large as
in Mansions. At the tap of a button a set of Dimensions is available for you to mark out a triangle and set your
bevel for marking out all the Angle cuts if you don't have a Protractor handy.
The program stores all your settings so you can recall them at any time.
The program works with two "Separate" modes of Entry, Metric and Imperial.
Metric Roof angles are entered in degrees.
Imperial can be entered with Slope or Degrees.
Separate comprehensive help files with each section of program.
Entry for any Timber size.
Caters for Soffit overhangs of up to 60 inches Imperial.
Any Dimension for Metric.
Check timber sizes to Eurocode 5.
Information provided by the Program includes.

COMMON RAFTER
* Length
* Overhang Length
* Plumb cut Angle
* Seat cut Angle
* Ridge Length for Hip Roof
* Birdsmouth Dimension

HIP RAFTER
* Length
* Overhang Length
* Plumb cut Angle
* Seat cut Angle
* Side cut Angle
* Birdsmouth Dimension

JACK RAFTER
* Length
* Overhang Length
* Plumb cut Angle
* Seat cut Angle
* Side cut Angle
* Shorten each Jack Dimension
* Birdsmouth Dimension

SETTING ANGLES
* Dimensions to create a triangle for marking out all Angles

App Changes

• January 04, 2015 New version 1.3
• November 21, 2015 New version 1.4
• July 17, 2016 New version 1.5
• November 07, 2016 New version 1.6
• June 14, 2019 New version 1.8
• July 15, 2020 New version 1.9