Fitting Roof Trusses

Use a tape measure to find the length of your roof.

Fitting roof trusses.

A roof truss is a. Builders often prefer roof trusses to traditional stick framed roofs because they re quick to install. The pitch of the roof is a ratio. Climb a ladder near the corner of your roof and tape the end of your tape measure against the rafter using duct tape.

Subscribe to our newsletter. They also eliminate the need to figure and cut complicated roof angles. Suppliers of high quality bespoke roof trusses and joists to builders architects engineers and homeowners since 1977. So use a tape measure to find the height of the roof above the top wall of the building.

Do it yourself home builders can usually install trusses up to 30 feet in length with minimal assistance. The number of inches that the roof rises vertically for every foot of roof. Please tick the box if you would like your details to be added to our database in order for us to contact you with our news offers and announcements by email. This is a way of measuring the degree of steepness of the roof.

In most cases you won t need a special installation crew for roof trusses. Calculate the roof pitch.