Clipped hip dormer roof
Clipped hip dormer roof
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So I have this project with a lot of dormers. The dormers ridge beams are clipped at the front so I must use bent ridge steel beam. Do I have any other option? Do you think I can do wood moment connection? What shall I use? Let me try to draw it with the keyboad of the section of the roof.
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I could post a picture, but I'm not sure how to do that.
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Dik
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COEngineer - Architects usually don't like steel. If you threaten steel or a flat portion of the ceiling, I bet he will take making the ceiling flat.
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It does have to built properly and with a steep roof pitch to perform well. I always go with a redundant system for these designs: diaphragm design and strap connections at the corners each designed to handle the loads independently. I also insist on structural observation before going with this approach, to verify the blocking and nailing.
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NKT - I know it will work that way if constructed correctly, I just haven't had much luck getting contactors to do things they are not use to. The steel is easy to inspect. It is either there or its not. Maybe I am just set in my ways.
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If they get big, there is no ceiling, and your nervous, I say use steel like I suggested earlier.
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