Board That Holds Roof Together Inside

Trusses form the roof line on buildings and provide support for the lumber that holds shingles or other form of roof cover.

Board that holds roof together inside.

This house uses trusses for the roof framing. This seemingly insignificant part serves a crucial structural role. They keep you roof s lower line together and prevent sagging and separation. Some bracing provides a way to put up the trusses evenly while holding them and other bracing supports them after they are put up.

Trusses are pre fabricated triangulated wooden structures used to support the roof. Rip the tops of the fascia boards to match the slope of your roof. Trusses are quite common these days because they have five big advantages from the builder s standpoint. Fascia boards are the horizontal members tying your rafters or truss tails together.

Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. Without bracing it is almost impossible to install trusses. To stabilize the rafters support the roofing material and hold the entire roof together roof sheathing is installed. Such roofs are built with mostly timber take a number of different shapes and are covered with a variety of materials.

The alternative is to build up the roof s frame with 2x8s and 2x10s. The skeleton of a roof is formed with rafters or trusses generally spaced 16 inches or 24 inches apart from the center of one rafter to the center of the next.