Traditional Timber Roof Structures

The finished structure is readily adaptable.

Traditional timber roof structures.

Rafters have a tendency to flatten under gravity thrusting outwards on the walls. This reflects the weatherproofing requirements of older roofing materials like thatch and peg tiles. Design of timber structures part 1 2 general structural fire design. Not only is the volume large enough to convert into living space but the structure can generally be easily.

A truss roof using factory made trusses which are delivered to site complete and just erected. Bs en 1995 1 2 eurocode 5. The traditional option is steeply pitched rarely less than 35. Trada have published span tables in a new softback book called eurocode 5 span tables.

Timber framing and post and beam construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers creating structures using squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. Traditional cut timber pitched roof structures were in common use up until the 1970s. A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof trusses usually occur at regular intervals linked by longitudinal timbers such as purlins the space between each truss is known as a bay. The rafters distribute the load of the roof covering and structure to the external walls.

A cut roof this is the traditional method of cutting the timber on site and building up the roof using rafters ridge boards joists and purlins etc the exact details being determined by the size of roof size of timbers etc. Traditional or cut roof. In larger roofs lateral restraint typically in the form of collars spanning between the rafters prevents the structure from spreading outwards.