Roof Truss Question - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

Gravel7 · 10-07-2009, 07:31 AM

Hello,
I have a question I was hoping someone may be able to help me with.
I am building a 14' x 16' shed. The walls are all up and I am getting ready to put the trusses in place. I built the trusses in my garage last weekend....raining again....by a design i found in a shed book i bought at Lowes.

The bottom chord spans 14', it is a 12/12 pitch, i made gussetts out of 1/2 ply and used all 2x6 lumber (although the book used 2x4). I live in Maine (SNOW) will be using 1/2" advantech, with clips, and spacing the trusses 24" OC. The roof will recieve asphalt shingles.

My big worry is this....these trusses are all simple triangles, 3 boards, with no king stud or interior bracing at all. Is that crazy? I liked the openess of it, for storage reasons, but as i got thinking about it I started to wonder.

Do you think that I must install some sort of interior brace or will the 2x6's handle this just fine?

This is how they did it in the book, but it was for a shed with a 10' span...not 14' like mine.....but they used 2x4 not 2x6 like mine.......

Thanks for any opinions at all!!!!!!

Mike

SC sawdaddy · 10-07-2009, 07:56 AM

I think I would at least put an upright from the center of the truss to the peak .
Its going to have a lot of weight on it when it snows.

Just my .02

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