Gable Style Roof Trusses

Align them to the edges of the floor and attach with 3 to 4 screws along their length.

Gable style roof trusses.

A variety of the trusses shown above fit into the common or gable truss category including the king. In general the maximum distance between top chord joints on roof trusses is about 8 feet and 10 feet on bottom chord. Like these are often referred to as commons webs and joints are arranged in such a way that they create triangular spaces inside the truss and that lumbar and plates in the truss are optimized. Room in attic trusses are professionally designed with state of the art computer programs.

Trusses can be constructed with smaller sized lumber than rafters and often their cost is not significantly higher than normal rafters. Room size will vary depending on the overall size and slope also referred to as pitch of the trusses. Another very common roof type the hip truss is used to create a hip roof which has slopes on all four sides. Build a temporary truss jig by screwing 2 long 2 4 s to adjacent edges of the floor at 90 degrees to each other.

This way the floor acts as a giant builders square. The lumber components are. Gable trusses are more expensive than common structural trusses because more lumber is required. A gable truss isn t structural and needs a continuous bearing support underneath such as a beam or wall.

A gable truss sits on the end wall of a structure and has vertical studs every 2 feet or 16 inches.