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Yes predominantly. Plasterboarding isn’t a must

Well my concern was that 22mm chipboard over ~40sqm was going to be about 750kg, then 15 sheets of plasterboard around 350kg. That’s before I even store stuff up there. Storage wise the usual stuff, kids stuff, outdoor furniture cushions, lots of paint tins, camping and leisure stuff and just...

I do, in fact I was planning to add 3 beams of 90x250 to support the new joists I intended to run anyway. Most of what I read was to leave the chords/trusses alone and build a completely independent floor, but I’m open to ideas. Bear in mind the dimension perpendicular to the chords is 6m so...

thanks for your help. The garage is 7m deep by 6m wide. I was intending on running 7m 8x2 joists front to back between the existing truss chords using joist hangers and then 3x 6m perpendicular beams consisting of 2x 2x10’s bolted together secured to the gable ends with heavy duty joist hangers...

The problem I have is the new joists start 5” below the current chords and finish level with the top of the chords (3”, so 8” in total). My preference would just be to remove the diagonals if they aren’t required and retain the longitudinals

I’ve seen a lot of very short threads on this forum with people asking about boarding out their garages for storage. The advice is typically not to board the trusses but instead to run new joists to support the boarding above. I’ve seen barely anything from people who have actually done it...

My question is whether these chords needs to be for diagonally braced (which they are) in addition to the longitudinal braces along the chords where the web meets, or whether these diagonal braces were simply there for temporary reasons whilst battening and tiling and just haven’t been removed.

This is actually a garage so no need to worry about cables, pipes or insulation but same principle applies re the diagonal braces on the truss chords. They don’t appear to be doing anything structurally because the chords are already braced longitudinally along the bottom of the webs and...

I won’t need to remove any other of the truss braces as the current truss chords are 3 inch deep and the new joists I’m running parallel to them are 8 inch deep. These new joists will hang 5 inches below the truss chords and therefore finish level with the top of the chords (well technically...

I’m comfortable with the new structure that’s being erected, but just need to know if I can remove the diagonal braces along the truss chords given they interfere with where the chipboard flooring will go, and from what I can see, there is no requirement for them to be there.

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Thanks. I’m speaking specifically about the truss chords and not the diagonal bracing elsewhere such as the rafters. I think the bracing you’re referring to (which can be replaced with ply) are the rafter DB’s which connect to the wall plate. I can’t see any requirement for DB’s on the truss...

Do you know of any requirement to brace the truss chords if the rafters have chevron bracing? My chords are braced diagonally but I am unsure if I can remove them when I build an independent mezzanine floor which will involve adding 8x2 joists adjacent to (but not connected to) the existing...

Hi mate. Wondering where you got with this? I am doing something slightly different but had similar questions over removing the bracing (specifically the diagonal braces along the bottom of the trusses (the chords)). I read the same NHBC standard as you, but noticed it stated bracing needed to...