Residential Home House Steel Roof Truss Design
Options to set the roof girders on wood post or concrete wall also available.
Residential home house steel roof truss design. It s often used for sheds garages or extension of an existing roof. Roof rafters trusses and beams. Roof and wall sheathing gravity and wind loads. Complete design of a home typically requires the evaluation of several different types of materials as in chapters 4 through 7.
Providing you with a quality complete engineered steel framing system and components and excellent service is our primary goal. A sl series truss is a single slope truss that includes steel girders and steel columns with clear span widths from 10 through 80 with available eave heights of 8 through 20. Lth steel structures has over 20 years of experience with steel framing kits for custom homes. To achieve maximum indicated spans trusses may require six or more panels.
A truss is a prefabricated wooden structure that integrates a triangular webbing of structural members to provide support for the roof above while tying the outside walls of the house together. Common truss types and spans 1. This is the distance between trusses. The long sloping beams extending to the top of the truss and the beam that runs horizontally along the bottom are called chords.
Hayward uses only high quality lumber and precision automated saws and assembly equipment to produce roof trusses for any style and size of roofing system. There are two primary advantages of roof trusses. We do offer steel roofing trim and steel wall panels as an optional price. A mono truss roof allows for more sunlight and visual space proper drainage and relatively cheaper.
Pre welded clips on 2 centers for wood or steel secondary framing. Trusses must be designed for any special loading such as concentrated loads from hanging partitions or air conditioning units and snow loads caused by driftingnearparapetorslide offfromhigherroofs. Almost all residential trusses use this spacing. Design loads for residential buildings 3 1 general.
You will also incur additional costs because it is much harder to deck and shingle a roof that is 12 12 pitch versus a 4 12 roof. It s a variation of the scissors truss and used in residential as well as commercial and industrial buildings. The standard roof truss spacing is 2.