Most simple construction truss roof home s roof and trusses are supported by the exterior walls perpendicular to the trusses.
Roof truss support walls.
Engineered roof truss systems may be designed to eliminate the need for load bearing walls or change where the bearing walls are located.
For example a gable end truss may be designed with support members that transmit the roof weight load outward to the side walls allowing the end wall directly below it to have breaks or openings in it that would otherwise be impossible.
Inclined or horizontal member that establishes the bottom of a truss usually carrying combined tension and bending stresses.
Nearly all types of trusses used in roofs from kingpost and queenpost to bowstring and cambered possess a central support beam.
Some roof truss types such as stub and dual pitch contain no center and therefore lack central support.
As with any question individual building designs can differ and just because a.
Elements that make a roof truss.
Usually trusses are put 24 inches apart.
Bracing for putting up trusses as each truss is put up on top of opposite walls it must be put up straight and supported while the next truss is put up.
We usually build on the exterior walls set the trusses and do all of the chord blocking and truss bracing before building the interior walls since it is easier to roll a scaffold around on an empty open floor.
To hold them up until the decking of the roof is placed on top a 12 foot 1 inch by 4 inch piece of lumber is used.
A gable truss sits on the end wall of a structure and has vertical studs every 2 feet or 16 inches.