About 80 years ago, the bowstring truss roof became a popular construction element in the United States. Prior to 1960, it was reportedly one of the most common design types for commercial and ...

Roof framing has undergone a quiet revolution over the past half century. Trusses are gradually replacing the conventional rafters, to the point that nowadays more than 80 percent of new residential ...

Few homeowners think about their house's roof trusses, that structural framework of timbers bridging the space above a building to support its roof. Trusses don't usually require replacement, but 2020 ...

Last week, I was downloading some photos from my fancy digital camera, and I stumbled across hundreds of forgotten photos I shot while my daughter’s new home was being built on Mt. Desert Island in ...

We are adding a master bedroom and family room "wing" to our house. It will have a standard pitched roof. Do you recommend having the roof stick built with lumber or using pre-made roof trusses? — Arn ...

Dear Jerry: I have inspected hundreds of roofs, but this one has me puzzled. The house is a two story, about 20 years old. On the east side of the house only, the plywood for the first three trusses ...

Even if your roof trusses feel like a barrier to converting your loft, with the right structural changes you can still extend ...

The Washington County Historic Courthouse in Stillwater was closed to the public on Wednesday afternoon after crews discovered a fracture in one of the heavy timber trusses holding up the roof of the ...

Forty-two wooden roof trusses collapsed and splintered this week during construction of Unity’s new public works garage. No one was hurt when the 80-foot-long trusses fell — some on Sunday and the ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Roof trusses are set to be placed on the Harmony House of western Massachusetts Saturday morning in Chicopee. According to a news release sent to 22News, at 8:00 a.m. the ...