Posted by tlak on November 08, 2009 at 17:51:59 from (64.130.174.70):
In Reply to: Engineered Beams posted by tlak on November 08, 2009 at 11:26:35:
What we started to do was re-roof the house. It has a flat roof with the joists running front to back, but based on a standard length of wood there are cross beams at 16' or 12' intervals. The problem with the house roof design is they left too many trees around the house, the roof would load up with leaves and there was only one gutter on the back that would fill with water and get into the house because the metal roofing was bent over into the gutter. The ends of some joists/trusses rotted off causing more of a sag worsening the water problem. In trying to fix the joists and get a flat roof with a pitch back we discovered the cross beams. These cross beams added to the roof problem because their support posts were not directly on a floor joist, they may be on the 3/4 board between two joists. It's a two story house and some of the things that were not present during it's construction were; an inspector, a level, chalking, construction adhesive, any 2x12 material, but they had nails they may have put them in the wrong place, but they used plenty. 6 nails toe nailed in each stud. The flat roof trusses were built with a 2x8 for the ceiling joist and a 2x6 nailed to it at an angle rising for the roof pitch. The lack of nails allowed the 2x6s to sag. The pitch of the roof is about 3/8 in 12. I built a shed roof on one part with a 4/12 pitch. The front of the shed roof is a major truss I build to span 24 feet. It's 3/4 plywood on it's side, picture framed and sandwiched with 2x8s on the top, 2x12s on the bottom and 2x6s every four feet for the up rights. Glued and screwed. This shed roof was to add appeal to the house since it's like two old trailer houses stacked on top of each other, the shed roof is a cathedral. and another joist hangs onto it instead of on a post with no support and no way to support. Four beams replaced with stouter better constructed and one to go.
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