roof trusses

Hello, I’m looking to board my loft however when going up and taking a closer look I have these pieces of wood either end of the loft running width way across and aren’t attached to the trusses at all. These are shown in the photo below. Can anyone give some insight as to what these are and any...

Before I go to a structural engineer, I thought I'd ask some questions here. I just finished boarding up the loft which of course took ages to do(30+ hours). Earlier this year I've installed the velux window which helped massively with this job. Of course this is a crappy trussed roof and the...

Hi, We've just moved into a new house needing some renovating. I've found some useful tips on here but now have a question, if anyone can help I'm about to remove a 1st floor studio wall to alter the room sizes... I'm fairly sure it's not helping to support the roof trusses, but I'm not happy...