Raised wall without support legs in the rafters

[surfarn]

How do you solve the design of the trusses when building a 1 1/2 story with raised wall height? We want to be able to use the floor area all the way out to the wall on the upper floor, and therefore not have any support legs in the trusses. How is this usually solved? An example of such a house (as far as I can see it has no support legs) http://www.varsasvillan.se/detaljer.asp?prod_id=45. We would still prefer to use some form of truss to build the house cheaper and avoid a construction with a glulam ridge beam.

 

[Wasa]

Hello

Most likely, the vertical studs in the exterior walls are in one piece all the way from the sill of the ground floor to the top plate of the upper floor. The intermediate floor joists prevent the studs from being pushed out by the weight of the roof.

Best regards, Wasa

 

[surfarn]

Yes, that could be the case. But then the beams themselves must be constructed on-site beam by beam? Or how do you solve that? And what do you do with the ridge?

 

[GustavW]

My guess is that the partition wall on the second floor is part of the roof truss. I have the same solution with elevated wall life and a load-bearing partition wall upstairs. A beam supporting the middle of the house where the wall is missing.