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Rafter Help

Rafter Help is the easiest way to calculate rafter length and associated values when building!
Category Price Seller Device
Utilities $1.99 David Caddy iPhone, iPad, iPod

Quickly find roof pitch, rafter lengths and ridge height for gable roofs, based on room and ridge width. 
Or calculate length values with more control from the Advanced tab.

Features Include:

- Accurately solve rafter equations
- Enter pitch steepness in radians, decimal degrees or degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS) or rise/run (e.g. 8/12)
- Enter lengths in mm, cm, inches or feet
- Select your preferred number of decimal places

Reviews

Worthless
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Purchased yesterday, today app still says "waiting " & won't open. There should be a way to give less than 1 star


Works well
CarpentrySquirrel

Very intuitive. Would be better if it accepted angles as degrees and pitch-in-12.


No hip
Tryingtobuildit

Save your money there is much better calculators for free on the internet. I assumed it woiuld give me rafter calculations for any type roof I wanted to build, not gonna happen. Specifically hip roof rafters mating 2 different pitches. I also had to figure out format to enter data with onscreen keyboard very annoying. It did function for what it is very limited.


Garbage
Maddogavn

Utterly useless app. I want my money back!


Total waste of time and money.
Not fort he iPad.

It doesn't solve anything at all.


Can you say crap!!
Skidoo97

Total of waste of money!! Only one roof configuration, wth! I feel cheated.


Worthless garbage
rsshew

Bought to check personal calculations on a roof design for a shed I was building....waste of time and money. Dimensioning to the center of the ridge beam when the ridge beam size isn’t defined is useless....


Looks promising, but...
Happydress

Might be me, but where is the decimal point in the keypad? Ridge width is 2.5” ; no decimal available on the calc? Hope I’m missing a mistake...


Don’t wast your money
Jeremy2487

Doesn’t get you necessary measurements to cut rafters.


Awesome App but...
markinoklahoma

This is an awesome app, but it is really limited


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