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Roof truss

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Hey, so two questions really, in the two uploaded images. Currently I'm doing the firewall in my loft on one side and have a single truss at each end of the wall, being a terraced house, where I'm putting the wall there is a truss directly on top of the wall, can this be moved easily or should I bring either side of it?

And also in the other image of the main support a frame (king post truss) the king post and the tie beam has a gap between the two, and the wooden peg going in the middle can been seen properly, is this something to worry about the gap?

Thanks
 

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Hey, so two questions really, in the two uploaded images. Currently I'm doing the firewall in my loft on one side and have a single truss at each end of the wall, being a terraced house, where I'm putting the wall there is a truss directly on top of the wall, can this be moved easily or should I bring either side of it?

And also in the other image of the main support a frame (king post truss) the king post and the tie beam has a gap between the two, and the wooden peg going in the middle can been seen properly, is this something to worry about the gap?

Thanks
If you mean by 'truss' you mean that support post - then as long as the new wall can replace what the post is doing, then crack on. It's how you support the roof whilst building the new wall that is important. Can you support the roof on one half of the (presumably) full brick wall, whilst you build your wall on the other half?
 

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