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Originally Posted by Bassmankr  That does not look very structurally sound to my eyes. I hope you don't live in a cold climate where there will be any snow load on that roof. A 2" x 4" roof joist with a 2' spacing given the spans in the pic is not going to hold much of a load. I see you did add small collar beams at the ridge but they should be lower so you form a decent size triange. The purpose of the low hanging tie beam is to keep your walls from collasping outward and form LARGE triangles which support the roof load (that's why they are called roof trusses and not just joists). If you want to keep that space stripped and open then just expose the wood trusses or replace structure with wire cable. Looks like you made the structure unsound and not to code. I see plenty of local news reports about building colapses because of remodeling work failing to properly brace or taking out structural elements. |
We get snow here in TN, but it's very little, and it hardly ever sticks. The only added load that I anticipate is the two layers of 5/8" drywall that we will hang. Notice the rear wall framing that extends to the roof 8" in from the rear gable...That should help a lot. We only removed 3 crossbeams on one side of the truss that is pictured, and we removed a 4th on the other side. The rest of the trusses are intact, as the half of the garage not shown in that pic has a dropped ceiling. The only spot that could maybe be a concern is the 72" span where the 3 crossbeams were cut out. If you think I should redo the crossbeams, I'm open to that. We just thought we would make drywalling easier on ourselves...