“Cheatle said the roof was too steep? It is an extremely shallow pitch.
Any less pitch and it would be a flat roof.”
That one is a huge detail. In fact it looked to me like it was flatter than the one the SS detail was on across from him.
Yes, it was much shallower. I looked at videos of both again today. The roof the SS agents were on looked to me to be about a 4 in 12 pitch. That means 4 inches of rise to 12 inches of run. Not particularly steep.
I built houses in CO for many years and a 4/12 pitch is super easy to run around on. In any area that can expect a decent snow load that is the minimum pitch for a house using typical trusses. 6/12 is far more common and even 8/12. 6/12 isn’t bad to walk around on but at that pitch it gets noticeably more tiring to spend a day on and, on a metal roof, you stop taking for granted that your feet won’t slip. 8/12 is where it gets more than tiring it gets hard to stay on if there is any loose dust or dirt on the roof or your shoes.
Now, to the shooter’s roof. I never built or worked on one that shallow but I’m guessing it is at least 2/12 or less.
Maybe I can pull up a good pic of it from a side angle and figure it out by measuring on the screen. I’ll post back to you later if I can do that.
In any case you could let kids run around on it, like kids do, and not worry that they would fall down and then slide or roll off. I did on my childhood house and that was a 4/12. Dad only got at me about it because it’s hard on asphalt shingles. lol