Check the old trusses.
How to repair rotted roof trusses.
If the roof truss has a small crack you will be using the two wooden boards to patch it up but if the crack is much more severe you should use the steel plates because they offer much stronger support to the damaged truss.
Staple it to the roof decking or nail it with plastic capped roofing nails.
The basics of the process are as follows.
If these have only small portions with rot you can repair using the boards.
Lay felt paper onto the roof overlapping the existing paper to get good coverage.
The trusses needed to be lifted to their original height and cut flush with the inside face of the cmu wall with the rotted sections removed.
Cover the seams between the old and new decking with bitumen tape.
The 4 sides of the bldg.
This video shows from start to finish the repair of rotted endbeams on a house using the endrot system.
The truss ends are covered by roof but their underside is exposed to the elements.
The first thing you need to do is to assess the damage.
Once you repair the hole in the roof plywood you need to seal up the seams and recover the roof.
To reinforce the ends of the trusses 3 4 inch plywood gussets were to be attached to both sides of each truss with 10d nails 3 inches on center on all chords.
How to repair rotting garage trusses.
They are a frame shaped trusses.
No supportive structural areas are experiencing rot.
The ends of the trusses are rotted out.
Remove weak spongy wood preserve and protect wood wi.
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