New Rafter connection to existing truss
New Rafter connection to existing truss
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A client would like to install an addition to their home. I looking for suggestions/recommendation for the new roof. Would something like the attached image work?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.






RE: New Rafter connection to existing truss
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RE: New Rafter connection to existing truss
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RE: New Rafter connection to existing truss
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RE: New Rafter connection to existing truss
Why not see if you can’t get a truss manuf’er. to do the whole roof system in yellow (which no one can see in your sketch as you show it, in the color you show it) as a single truss, bearing on the new right wall, on the existing right (red) wall, and on up to the new ridge, and then sistered onto the left slope of the existing trusses a few feet. Alternatively, use two trusses; one mono truss from the existing right (red) stud wall to the new right (yellow) wall; and a second truss atop the mono truss, btwn. it, to the new ridge, and on down to the left slope of the existing truss. The new trusses would be put in right alongside of the existing trusses, so they could be attached together as needed.