How To Remove Roof Trusses

Most common attic trusses for homes and garages are made with 2x4 s.

How to remove roof trusses.

The first step when removing a wood roof truss is to disassemble the existing roof that is causing a load upon the truss. Typically the truss designer will specify a very strong wood species like southern yellow pine or even douglas fir. Step 1 remove the existing roof. Measure in from the lower edge of the roof to a point 1 4 the width of the truss on either side of the attic.

If the roof slope is steeper than 9 inches in 12 inches of run it doesn t take much width to end up with a nice room 12 feet wide with an 8 foot ceiling. My own home i live in now has 2x12 rafters. This can easily be accomplished by using a hammer and a crowbar. Your parents roof rafters were probably made from 2x8 s and could have been 2x10 s or 2x12 s.

Attic trusses have a rectangular shape inside each truss. Use a chalk line to draw a line along the floor parallel to the lower edge of the roof from one end of the attic to the other on both sides. Watch this video before. Look at this photo of the space created by attic trusses at my home.

Roof trusses are a common means of support and load bearing. Measure the width of your roof trusses from inside to inside. I have this above my own garage.