When restoring an old home it has become very common to expose wood beams adding to the charming history of the home.
Roof trusses for open ceilings.
Trusses also play a key role in the construction of the roofline and ceilings of a building.
How to use it.
Overhang the extension of the top chord of a truss beyond the bottom chord measured horizontally b.
Do about 6 of those and you would have a lot of open area in the ceiling.
Top chord an inclined or horizontal member that establishes the upper edge of a truss usually carrying compression and bearing stress.
The exposed beam ceiling look is one that many owners of conventional flat ceilings desperately want.
A shallow pitch like in this example can still be quite spacious when a scissor truss is used to support the roof.
Does not have to be much.
Stately attractive and open.
Desperately enough in fact to consider making the major step of pulling down ceiling drywall to expose joists above.
A scissor truss is appropriate when the ceiling pitch or slope isn t very steep.
One suggestion was to lift the roof trusses up 3 feet by adding to the outside walls.