Fine Homebuilding | Your Truss Uplift Questions, Answered | FHB Podcast 642 Segment @finehomebuildingmagazine | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Dealing with truss uplift can be a challenge, especially when it comes to incorporating structural elements like fireplaces. This very issue was highlighted in a recent discussion on the Green Building Advisor forum.
In this FHB Podcast Segment, the crew talks solutions and fastening methods to prevent truss uplift issues. Here's the question:
"Our build has 36-ft. trusses that only bear on the front and back walls. I am assuming that interior walls should not tie into them because the trusses move a bit with snow load? We have a 6-ft.-wide x 2ft.-deep x 18-ft.-tall fireplace build-out to do, and I’m not sure how to connect it at the ceiling. The wall it is being built on also has a girder truss as part of that wall. There is still a wall missing in the photo below the girder truss down to the loft floor. "
See the drawings to go with this question: finehomebuilding.com/2024/07/26/podcast-episode-642-truss-uplift-wet-ceilings-and-siding-a-second-time
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Dealing with truss uplift can be a challenge, especially when it comes to incorporating structural elements like fireplaces. This very issue was highlighted in a recent discussion on the Green Building Advisor forum.
In this FHB Podcast Segment, the crew talks solutions and fastening methods to prevent truss uplift issues. Here's the question:
"Our build has 36-ft. trusses that only bear on the front and back walls. I am assuming that interior walls should not tie into them because the trusses move a bit with snow load? We have a 6-ft.-wide x 2ft.-deep x 18-ft.-tall fireplace build-out to do, and I’m not sure how to connect it at the ceiling. The wall it is being built on also has a girder truss as part of that wall. There is still a wall missing in the photo below the girder truss down to the loft floor. "
See the drawings to go with this question: finehomebuilding.com/2024/07/26/podcast-episode-642-truss-uplift-wet-ceilings-and-siding-a-second-time
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast platform:
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fine-homebuilding-podcast/id1127408595?mt=2
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/54IyOSRiw5eEXkr0Mt7gtZ?si=i0IOp-mpSEioXaCjXVQz2Q
Read every issue of Fine Homebuilding Magazine:
finehomebuilding.com/magazine
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