I read in a book at the library about cabin building that you should start with the gables; they had extended the beams so that they reached up to the underside of the roof. This way, they saved a truss (perhaps) per gable since they only nailed on tie beams and bottom chords at the gables and then laid on the roof decking. And then trusses c-c 120 in between as usual.
Is this stronger than if you build four identical walls (with the same height) on the concrete slab, raise them up, and place trusses all the way? It would be simpler to splice the wall plate if the walls are the same height.
/Anders
Is this stronger than if you build four identical walls (with the same height) on the concrete slab, raise them up, and place trusses all the way? It would be simpler to splice the wall plate if the walls are the same height.
/Anders
I followed the same method as the book on my latest build. If you do it like this, you have no wall plate at all on two sides, so there's no problem with that. However, I embedded a standing 45X145 at about the same height as the wall plate. (Very practical for joining the asfabord on). Then I placed a complete truss against the protruding studs. The nice thing about this method is that you get two ultra-stable trusses, and then you just have to measure the centers of the others so the entire roof is correctly positioned at once.