Robert, Ideally, the ramp should be 1 foot per inch. So, if the porch is actually 39 inches off the ground, your ramp would need to be 39 feet.
At 01:39 PM 8/21/2008, you wrote: >I need to build a small ramp from the ground up on to the porch. How >do I figure out the gradiant? Like the porch is 39 inches off the >ground, how long should the boards be? Ideally the ramp should be >cement but I don't know how to do that and it's frankly beyond our >budget to have a pro do it. So I'm thinking of building a simple 2 >by6 over 2 by 4 ramp and bolting it to the underside of the porch >frame. Thoughts? > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
