Gambrel Attic Roof Truss

In barns the gambrel style helps in creating plenty of storage room in a lofted space.

Gambrel attic roof truss.

This system consists of a girder truss corner girder corner jacks and end jacks. Over 51 sizes styles in stock. Gambrel roof truss systems are not only visually appealing but they are also useful. The shape of the truss allows the structure to be open providing a free open space.

In the us a gambrel roof is regularly erroneously called a hipped roof and shows up on homes in a style alluded to as dutch colonial. A gambrel truss includes steel girders with steel columns available in straight leg and tapered leg versions. Up to 40 open framing for plumbing. Gambrel trusses can also have a nice size room built in just like an attic truss.

Gambrel trusses are great for the old barn style image. Each truss bears the truss plate institute tpi stamp for quality assurance. Ceiling and 17 ft. Due to the overall height the truss is manufactured as a piggyback truss to allow for transportation.

Shop roof trusses spacer floor truss. Gambrel attic trusses 28 gambrel attic truss with a 24 12 lower pitch and 7 12 upper pitch with 12 overhang. The lumber components are precision cut and assembled together with galvanized steel truss plates in a factory controlled environment. The gambrel series tapered leg version is available in 24 30 40 50 and 60 widths in eave heights from 8 through 14.

Pictured is the truss system that supports the roof of the barn. Gambrel trusses are very popular for barns with hay storage. A gambrel room in attic truss also provides extra living space while giving your roof a barn like appearance. Hip sets are used to construct hip roofs which are roofs that slope from all sides.

This series of diagrams shows just how the second floor lays out in each of our six different truss widths. Custom trusses up to 100 span. The utilization of gambrel roof trusses on roofs goes back hundreds of years in american structural planning to the soonest archived utilization being in the 1600s. Room in attic trusses are professionally designed with state of the art computer programs.