Window Trusses, Trusswork in the Craftsman Building.
By James T. Murray, AIA
Some people are amazed at the sight of a craftsman’s or a millwright’s home without a truss in the rafters. Even if you’ve never seen a trusses before, you might be amazed by how quickly and cheaply these simple structures can be built.
The trusses shown in the drawing on page 6 are very popular and easy to build, and with few tools, a half-day’s work can build a dozen of these trusses. The trusses are the same in every room, and this allows us to keep the loft extra warm in winter by a simple insertion of wood blocks in the top chords. They are also easy to assemble and can be easily moved from room to room.
The drawings here are plans for trusses that are one story tall, but many trusses can be built higher. A builder can create a truss that is ten feet high using the same plans.
The type of truss shown in this project is a simple roof truss, and only four of the twelve trusses in the story are shown. However, these trusses are the basic frame for all trusses that are used for houses.
In the near future, our paper is going to be published in the Wood Builders Journal, with the aim of broadening the knowledge of the craft of woodworking and raising the standards of the profession. That also means that there will be a lot of new techniques and new ways of building and this paper will show some of them.
The drawings are showing 12 different trusses with five common types of construction. You can see that the drawings for the project include a house and a dormer truss. In this particular example, we are looking at a roof truss with four bottom chords, a roof truss with a single top chord and four bottom chords, and a dormer truss with four bottom chords.
To build any of these trusses, you will need 1 1/2 in. OSB for the bottom chords, 1 in. OSB for the roof diagonal, and 2 by 6 in. stock for the top chords.
Each truss will require a truss jack, a nail set and a number of nails and screws. We will show which ones are needed in a 01e38acffe
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