Hi, I am looking for a company that specialises in a sort of a roof related product that I have heard exists but don't have any details nor exact term for it.
The setting is as follows: it's an end-of-terrace house, of which the roof uses horizontal beams running mid-height of the loft, with the purpose to stabilise the roof laterally (ie. to reduce force that the rafters exert to the walls they rest on). I have been told that an alternative solution is possible, where these beams could be removed and instead a reinforcing structure that run along the existing rafters could be fitted. Any suggestion as to which companies are in business of producing that kind of structure, or at the very least what are the search terms I should use when looking for this? I talked to some roofers but they could not give me a direct advice where to search for that, although they said they could fit it once I find it, and once building control is happy with it.
Cheers,
Nikola
The setting is as follows: it's an end-of-terrace house, of which the roof uses horizontal beams running mid-height of the loft, with the purpose to stabilise the roof laterally (ie. to reduce force that the rafters exert to the walls they rest on). I have been told that an alternative solution is possible, where these beams could be removed and instead a reinforcing structure that run along the existing rafters could be fitted. Any suggestion as to which companies are in business of producing that kind of structure, or at the very least what are the search terms I should use when looking for this? I talked to some roofers but they could not give me a direct advice where to search for that, although they said they could fit it once I find it, and once building control is happy with it.
Cheers,
Nikola