Oak Beam Roof

Green oak from 350 perthshire trees was used to fabricate and erect 57 hammerbeam trusses.

Oak beam roof.

You can also use the wood beam calculator from the american wood council website to determine maximum rafter and joist lengths. Predominantly oak beams are used for decorative purposes home structures as well as roof structures the construction of oak framed buildings bridges and marine structures they can also be used for an array of external and landscaping purposes. Oak vaulted ceilings with oak roof trusses and roof rafters create a striking visual effect and a sense of height space and luxury making your home a stunning place to live whilst adding value to your property. Oak beams used in traditional timber frame construction have been used in the uk for hundreds of years.

2 x d trusses 2 x b trusses a ridge beam and 2 x wall plates. Oak roof trusses and oak roof rafters can add enormous long term value to building developments. Today we not only use oak beams for oak framed houses but we are building oak porches and vestibules oak framed garages and carports extending our homes with oak garden rooms summer rooms orangeries and gazebos and even housing our horses in timber framed stables. The loads on the ridge beam are carried by vertical posts at the beam ends down through the building structural walls to the building foundation.

For a flat roof with snow loading this is 25 lbs. Use the span tables below to determine allowable lengths of joists and rafters based on size and standard design loads. Multiply the loading per square foot by the area in square feet of the surface which the beams will be supporting. On longer spans the beam may require much more bearing space as indicated by this table.

Calculate the weight the beam must support. This 3 bayed oak beamed roof frame 5m x 9m 45m2 9 900 vat. Anything 5 and above we always at least double cripple. For rooms which are heavily frequented it may be 50 lbs.

According to the 2012 irc codes any beam joist or header shall never have a bearing of less than 1 1 2. Per square foot for northern areas of the u s. A structural ridge beam is a horizontal beam placed at the peak or ridge of a roof and is designed to carry much of the live and dead loads or weight of the roof structure by itself. The 4 oak roof trusses are assembled and the ridge beam 2 wall plates and 6 sets of purlins are jointed ready to assemble on site.