How To Construct Roof Trusses

Now assembly of your roof trusses can finally begin.

How to construct roof trusses.

Install the roof trusses. The longer your shed is the more roof trusses you will have to make. There are three parts to the roof truss that you have to know. Determine your shed roof pitch.

The trusses you require may depend upon the shed s length. This will be the rafters length. Finally there are the gussets that hold the framed truss together. Trusses can be constructed with smaller sized lumber than rafters and often their cost is not significantly higher than normal rafters.

Attach the truss to the frame every 2 feet securing them with 3 inch deck screws. The best way to assemble the trusses is to lay each rafter and bottom chord on the ground in the desired shape. The overhang will depend on the size of the building or house and the pitch of the roof. Use of manufactured roof trusses can dramatically cut labor costs when framing a gable roof compared to building rafters.

Begin by determining the measurements of the roof s slope. Trusses are commonly used to provide support for roofs bridges and other expansive structures. Take two rafters and connect the peak at the plumbed corner you created. The bottom chord which is the bottom of the framed truss.

Toe nail them into the top plate to secure them and then make sure they are braced laterally using blocking or long purlins. Even if you don t know how to build a truss any diyer with confidence can construct a simple roof truss for a shed. Sheathing added on top of the trusses will provide final support to the roof trusses. See gusset construction below.

Again for the sake of simplicity we ll be building a truss for a gable roof. Brace the trusses in place and check for plump prior to securing the frame. Do this by nailing the triangular gusses to the rafters. The good thing about roof trusses is that they are simple to construct.

A gable roof is your typical two sided roof that meets at a point in the middle.