Post And Beam Roof Design

Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design.

Post and beam roof design.

And cdx fir plywood. Continuing on from part 3. Roof designs for a post beam home. First roof area assembly.

In this example 5 inches will be used for both. Under the general panel of the floor beam defaults dialog set the depth and width of the beam. On the posts panel click the edit post defaults button and set both width 1 and width 2 to match the beam width of 5. Post and beam home design.

One of the major choices in designing your post beam home is the selection of a roof style and whether or not you want verandahs. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. For areas with attic space above flat ceiling ceiling joists are included but the remainder of the ceiling system above is by owner contractor. Use rope to raise the board if the beam placement is high and the board is very heavy.

Here we have a wood framed gable roof. These timbers are then tied together with collar ties the horizontal members and gusset plates the metal fasteners as you can see in the photo below right. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Verandahs can be placed on either or both sides of your home and also on both ends if you desire.

Go over to the board end on the ground walk this up a ladder attach rope to it and tie this to its post. The first roof area is constructed with heavy timbered components that are secured to the ridge beam and second floor beams. Click ok to close the floor beam defaults then set the placement to under joists.