open wall between vaulted and flat ceili
I want to create an opening (14′ or so) between two rooms that have a load bearing wall separating them. The flat ceiling room has half trusses resting on the wall and the vaulted room has 2 x 10s attached at the top of the half trusses with plywood gussets. The easy thing to do would be to install a standard steel or wood beam under the half trusses and support the beam with posts on either end a make sure the posts are over the supports in the crawl space. I am trying to figure out a way to install a beam that won’t lower the 8′ flat ceiling much and am wondering if an L shaped beam could be installed so that the short leg of the cross section supports each half truss while the long leg of the beam would attach to the vertical portion of each half truss, looking just like a capital L. I am having trouble finding information on sizing L shaped steel beams for such use. I am open to other suggestions.
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It can be easy to do this with a flush beam, once the truss engineer tells you how
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