Roof Trusses For Open Ceilings

The exposed beam ceiling look is one that many owners of conventional flat ceilings desperately want.

Roof trusses for open ceilings.

How to use it. One suggestion was to lift the roof trusses up 3 feet by adding to the outside walls. Stately attractive and open. It creates a more spacious feeling because there s no horizontal element defining a lower virtual ceiling line.

Another idea is to add skylights between the truss 24 inches wide and flare the box at the ceiling out to may be 2 ft by 6 ft. Do about 6 of those and you would have a lot of open area in the ceiling. Does not have to be much. When restoring an old home it has become very common to expose wood beams adding to the charming history of the home.

Overhang the extension of the top chord of a truss beyond the bottom chord measured horizontally b. A shallow pitch like in this example can still be quite spacious when a scissor truss is used to support the roof. Top chord an inclined or horizontal member that establishes the upper edge of a truss usually carrying compression and bearing stress. A scissor truss is appropriate when the ceiling pitch or slope isn t very steep.