stub
Bronze Member
I'm ready to frame some interior stud walls for horse stalls in my new pole barn. The barn is raised about 18" above surrounding grade on a mixture of asphalt millings and bank run gravel/sand.
The slab floats inside the posts.
I'm planning on framing the inside stud walls on top of the slab. My question is, should I nail the top plate of the walls to the the roof trusses, or should I make a bracket of some kind with a slot to allow independant movement between the slab and the barn trusses?
Looks to me like if I tie them solid, it will crack the slab and/or bow the trusses, since the barn framing and the slab can move relative to each other.
Or am I worrying about nothing?
The slab floats inside the posts.
I'm planning on framing the inside stud walls on top of the slab. My question is, should I nail the top plate of the walls to the the roof trusses, or should I make a bracket of some kind with a slot to allow independant movement between the slab and the barn trusses?
Looks to me like if I tie them solid, it will crack the slab and/or bow the trusses, since the barn framing and the slab can move relative to each other.
Or am I worrying about nothing?