Eng Beam Question

boot83

1960's home bungalow plain peak 4:12 roof. one main load bearing wall like most all old homes. seperating kitchen and living room. already priced out 14' beam. all good to go on that. but looking into the option of instead of running beam under trusses.... like usual ( but beam 10 thick in height) instead looking at making two temp support walls ( no snow on roof) on each side of main wall and cutting the dimension of the beam and installing it flush with bottem side of truss. and using joice hangers to connect truss to eng beam. creates flush ceiling. much desired effect in old home. looking at the pros an cons. plumber by trade looking for experianced answer. trade basics easily understood
thank you

neolitic

You don't cut truss.
If it is truss, you may not
even need a beam.
Get someone who knows
to put an eyeball on it.
Could save grief and wasted money.

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K2

It's not likely to be a truss in a 60's home but it could be made into a truss if you get an engineer who knows what he is doing or a gc /carp that can design and then have a engineer stamp it.

Wood trusses for residential started around 1954 and it took a long time for them to get accepted in most areas.

what's a joice??

ChrWright

Dittos to what Neo said.

Most trusses are meant to only bear on exterior walls. They float over interior partition walls without needing any mid-span support.

I agree you should have a structural engineer look at it--especially if they're first generation trusses.

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boot83

Might just be easier to carry load with engineered beam underneath in place of existing load bearing wall. done that plenty of times was just looking to make seemless ceilinginstead of low hanging beam in a room between kitchen and living room. thanks for the input... as in talk to engineer. lol

ChrWright

If you have true trusses...the wall in question may not be load bearing at all.

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