sorry I need advice on leanto build!

[dcyrilc]

I'm not a builder so I don't know all the spans and load requirements, but most of the truss roofed out buildings I see have the trusses like 4-6 feet apart. 12 foot spacing, must require a HD truss, not like the flimsy ones I see that look like they are built out of all the 2"x X" seconds from Home Depot.
Maybe a typo?

jb

Around here, 12 foot spacing between engineered trusses (done by truss co) is common. I had 12 - 12 ft half trusses and 6 - 18 ft standard trusses made. Here are a couple of pix.

 

[dcyrilc]

Around here, 12 foot spacing between engineered trusses (done by truss co) is common. I had 12 - 12 ft half trusses and 6 - 18 ft standard trusses made. Here are a couple of pix.

Here's a pic from one of the barns at the county fair. the span is nearly 110 ft. Still 12ft between trusses and 2x6 perlins at 2ft OC. kinda hard to see though as I wasn't photographing the ceiling.

 

[jake98]

kinda hard to see though as I wasn't photographing the ceiling.

I was going to say if that's a picture of trusses..

 

[jake98]

I was going to say if that's a picture of trusses..

what a great country, even us farm animals have cell phone cameras now, oink-oink.

 

[gno242]

There's this shop I know of in pioneer, ohio. They'll make a steel framed lean-to 12 wide x 30 x 10 with a 12 ft peak for $2490.00 installed. You wouldn't have to do labor, I found out if you wanted to pick the kit up your self you could get it for 10% less. For that, I'd just let them build it. They use 2.5"x2.5" 14 gauge galvanized with 29 gauge sheets. I did a sketch in paint to show you what it would look like roughly. There's comes with local code snow load guarantee. That's a good deal in my opinion.

 

[gno242]

here's that sketch I did a while back for a friend of mines barn

 

[BryanM]

Is it 30 ft wide or 130 wide? I wish I could use sketch! I have a couple people working on rafters vs. trusses. So when I get an answer back I will get back on. But thanks! I wish it where a bit deeper than 12ft.

 

[schmism]

if the edge of the blue shed roof winds up to close to the ground.

run the start point up the roof of the barn. requires more roof tin, but you can achieve the finish height you need with a moderate slope.

 

[gno242]

I'm sure they can fabricate a building system wider than 12. It was my understanding that it starts to get expensive when they do.

The barn was 130 ft long and 12 ft tall at the eve. He planned on having this free standing lean-to on the side of his barn. He was going to put 15 ft header bars every 20 ft, so that he could access his tractor attachments.

 

[BryanM]

That doesnt seem like a bad deal for 130 ft of shed.


My leanto was off the gable side not the the eave side of the barn. But good idea!