new foyer addition: 10′ x 11′ with a gable roof that t’s or 90’s from original gable roof. 2x6x9 stud walls. 4-12 pitch roof. hope that is enought info for my upcoming question: for the trusses i would run two beams horizontal to the excistiing structure. one actually on the excisting structures wall and one on the new exterior (horizontal to the home,front door wall) can i run a beam down the middle of the new structure to support the 2x 6’s i might use for the roof trusses? see omnigraffle atttachment for rude scetch.
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your graffle (?) doesn't work.
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If I am understanding your question - you are asking if a bearing ridge is needed.
If so, you do not need it if you are tying the bottom of the roof system with (ceiling) overlays.
It sounds as thought you are conventionally framing it rather than using a pre-manufactured truss.
Terry
For starters why not stick frame such a small addition? Trusses probably wouldn't save any money, and a roof such as you describe would be simple to cut rafters for.
As far as the beams, I'd like to see the pic. Post it as a .jpg, .gif or some format that is a bit more common.
2x6s are rafters, not trusses, so without a viewable photo or drawing, we are all confused.
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rough drawings: i'm thinking laminate beams for the ridge beam and the two side beams to support it...am i going over board? hope this drawing works a bit better. thanks for the time.
The two side beams might be overdesign, but I still cannot open the drawing. It posts here as a *.1 type of file. Windows has never heard of that kind of a file, according to my PC. What program is creating these? As suggested earlier, post as a *.jpg or *.gif fileto do that, open the file in your PC, then go
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here are pdf files. the last ones were jpeg files. both should work, nothing special...
thanks again. i didn't mention size of side beams or the front or back beams. i was thinking 2x8 on the side and 2x10 laminates for front and back. i might now need that much though. one of the drawings is the arial of the roof (kind of hard to tell now that i look at it)