Vaulted Ceiling Roof Trusses

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Vaulted ceiling roof trusses.

A vaulted ceiling angles up from the top plates of the wall sections. Explore all truss options with your builder. Click and drag to draw a roof truss perpendicular to the ridge line of the roof and ceiling planes. A typical vaulted ceiling truss called a scissor truss.

A scissors truss provides for a vaulted ceiling in the same time frame as standard trusses. This type of truss is perfect for the dining room living room great room and kitchen. It can take various forms and often used for aesthetic purposes adding height and focal interest to the ceiling. Roof trusses are built in a truss manufacturing warehouse and delivered preassembled to the jobsite.

Parallel chord trusses allow for greater interior clearance in buildings. To convert a truss roof to a vaulted ceiling you may need to do significant reconstruction of the roof. A scissors truss creates a vaulted ceiling in the same framing time as standard roof trusses that produces a bland flat ceiling. The bottom chords are angled to create vaulted ceilings.

Converting a conventional flat roof with trusses to a vaulted ceiling will create an open spacious looking living space. The offset scissor truss has a bottom chord that is flat for a distance and then is vaulted up and back down. Engineered roof trusses may be designed to create a vaulted ceiling while still providing sufficient support for the roof s weight. There are variations of this design to create numerous unique ceilings.

To create scissor trusses with both the ceiling and roof planes in place you can now create roof trusses. If the roof was built with traditional rafter and joist construction the ceiling joists. The simplest way to get a vaulted ceiling is by setting vaulted roof trusses. This design element makes a room appear larger and provides more natural light.

In a common truss design sloping top chords function just like rafters in conventional framing and horizontal bottom chords fill the role of ceiling joists.