Building our retirement home

[EddieWalker]

Exciting progress. Looks like a house!!!! I sure hope you make it in time with the roof. From what they are predicting, it's going to be a very heavy rain this weekend!!!

 

[kevin37b]

That builder is an absolute slob . He spends more time walking around his mess than working .

 

[JRobyn]

Now I can really understand your concern about spreading force on the porch. But IMHO, with that truss design and your reinforced columns, I don't think you'll have any problem.

You DO have me just a bit worried about our master bedroom vaulted ceiling now!

Looking really good! I really like your idea about the bedroom window personal touch. We just added an ornamental brass Celtic cross.



- Jay

 

[KiotiKowboy]

That builder is an absolute slob . He spends more time walking around his mess than working .

No argument with that one - lol. They're the nicest guys but absolute PIGS.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Exciting progress. Looks like a house!!!! I sure hope you make it in time with the roof. From what they are predicting, it's going to be a very heavy rain this weekend!!!

Roofing materials arrived at 4pm today. Crew will hit the site in the morning We have all day tomorrow and about 1/2 of Saturday before rain should hit. The roofer says he will be done.

 

[TomSeller]

Roofing materials arrived at 4pm today. Crew will hit the site in the morning We have all day tomorrow and about 1/2 of Saturday before rain should hit. The roofer says he will be done.

Roofs can go on quickly, so good luck! Looks like you have time and it will be a relief for sure to have the roof on.

 

[EddieWalker]

Now I can really understand your concern about spreading force on the porch. But IMHO, with that truss design and your reinforced columns, I don't think you'll have any problem.

I forgot about this and looked at the pictures again. I wasn't understanding what you where talking about when you first asked the question, but now that I'm looking at your pictures and your solution, I'm unsure of it's long term effectiveness. Gravity and time are going to be a never ending force that I'm afraid will win this battle over time. If it was me, I would add a cable to hold the top of the posts holding them together. Probably something in the 3/8's range with hardware rated for outdoor use and big enough to handle the load. A cable wont be very visible, which I think is your main goal aesthetically.

At the very least, I would hire an engineer to sign off on the design as is before I would feel comfortable leaving it like that.

 

[chad22]

Congrats on your new home. Good to hear that the roof is going on.

A few months ago I was driving by a house and the roofers had just arrived. A few hours later I drove by again and they had the old roof off and the new one on and were cleaning up and putting there tools away.

A lot faster than I could do it.

Hope you get many years of enjoyment out of your new house.

 

[tbrooks26]

If it were me, I would glue and attach a plywood triangle to each side of the trusses. It would help ensure that collar tie like connection holds a little better. Extend it so the legs of the triangle are attached to the top chord and the hypotenuse runs with that collar tie connection. I agree with Eddie though, it should last along time, but eventually it will fail, of course all things fail eventually.

 

[JRobyn]

Don't y'all think that those trusses are SPECIFICALLY engineered/designed to withstand spreading force along the chord? Not just the truss, but a significant per sq ft decking and roofing load? Isn't that one of the MAIN functions of a truss? I would bet a dozen Krispy Kremes that they will be fine even without the highly reinforced posts. It would certainly be a piss-poor truss company that would engineer them any other way, and my guess is that their engineer has already signed the fab drawings for them and would also sign an affidavit that they are designed for and will withstand all applied forces.

JMHO

- Jay