Engineered Roof Trusses Load Bearing Walls

Some spans have a lower rate per foot than others.

Engineered roof trusses load bearing walls.

The span in short is the length of the bottom of the truss. They do this by means of top chords which are sloping members that extend from the peak of the roof to the top of the exterior walls at the eaves. Engineered roof truss systems may be designed to eliminate the need for load bearing walls or change where the bearing walls are located. Photograph the trusses draw them to scale take the pictures and elevation plan of the trusses to a reseller lumberyard and ask would a new truss like that be a clear span design if yes you can remove the wall use floating slotted clips between the top plate and truss bottom cord to reduce drywall cracking.

Most simple construction truss roof home s roof and trusses are supported by the exterior walls perpendicular to the trusses. 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. Support for a roof built with engineered trusses comes from the sides of the house and is distributed that way so you wouldn t need a load bearing wall in the house. Factors that affect truss pricing and cost.

Roof trusses support a roof s weight by transferring the weight load downward and outward to the building s bearing walls. A gable wall will be load bearing if there is no truss is used at this point this is due to traditional framing methods being used for end of the gables but saying that you could use a truss at that point and have the wall open but this would need to be engineered to suit the situation. We usually build on the exterior walls set the trusses and do all of the chord blocking and truss bracing before buildin. This is the distance of the bottom chord of the truss from outside overhang of bearing wall to outside of the other bearing wall.