Finishing An Attic With Trusses

Roofs in standard wood frame houses are framed with traditional rafters or with roof trusses.

Finishing an attic with trusses.

The lyons used a web of 16 inch deep engineered trusses to accommodate wiring plumbing and ductwork then topped the plywood subfloor with oak or tile. Attic floors generally need to be reinforced with additional joists and a subfloor. Newer truss framed roofs are made with prefabricated trusses. Attic trusses have a rectangular shape inside each truss.

If you have this type of roof framing you cannot finish your. On the generalpanel of the roof truss. Traditional stick framed roofs are composed of rafters running from the ridge at the roof peak down to the walls. Look at this photo of the space created by attic trusses at my home.

The sad fact is your builder could have installed attic trusses over this garage for just slightly more than what the existing trusses cost. Attic conversions are now possible by replacing the truss rafters with a shaped trusses or horizontal beams which in return create additional space. Select the roof truss and click the open objectedit button. By contrast conventional trusses have supports called webbing that zigzag through the attic space.

This framing style typically provides the most open space in an attic. I have this above my own garage. To create an attic truss select build framing roof trussfrom the menu then click and drag a line that is perpendicular to the ceiling break. The role of the horizontal beam is to tie the truss together and carry the load that would otherwise be sustained by the support and vertical timber also known as the king post.