Excuse my ignorance of terms......
On a square bungalow, with a 30 deg pitched roof, I am looking to have the front two main rooms with vaulted ceilings, including velux windows.
Normally the roof trusses have cross members resting on the walls of the bungalow, forming a triangle supporting the roof. As I would want to remove these cross members to open up the ceilings to a height of approx 12', would it
a) be possible to put shorter cross members higher up
b) use a 30' x 40' (size of bungalow) square steel frame around the top of walls of the bungalow, and use steel trusses welded to this, which should be sufficient to support the roof without the need for crossmembers.
Any other suggestions welcome!!
I accept that I will need to use a structual engineer to finalise the exact detail.....
Thanks.....
On a square bungalow, with a 30 deg pitched roof, I am looking to have the front two main rooms with vaulted ceilings, including velux windows.
Normally the roof trusses have cross members resting on the walls of the bungalow, forming a triangle supporting the roof. As I would want to remove these cross members to open up the ceilings to a height of approx 12', would it
a) be possible to put shorter cross members higher up
b) use a 30' x 40' (size of bungalow) square steel frame around the top of walls of the bungalow, and use steel trusses welded to this, which should be sufficient to support the roof without the need for crossmembers.
Any other suggestions welcome!!
I accept that I will need to use a structual engineer to finalise the exact detail.....
Thanks.....