timber roof truss

The interior features a wooden ceiling with massive timber roof trusses.

Timber roof trusses were a medieval development.

Steel would have buckled under the heat, he said, but only one of the original timber roof trusses failed during the blaze.

A housebuilder has been fined £20,000 after a young boy was seriously injured when some timber roof trusses fell onto him.

A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof.

Timber roof trusses

Two reciprocal frame illustrations are shown on a page of illustrations from an 1813 book in the article Timber roof truss

Again exposed timber roof trusses and partial roof glazing are used to good effect in these spaces which are generally practical, well proportioned and enjoyed.

A hammerbeam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.

A Hammerbeam roof is a decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture and has been called "...the most spectacular endeavour of the English Medieval carpenter."

Many items, before they came to be made of mild steel, were produced from wrought iron, including rivets, nails, wire, chains, rails, railway couplings, water and steam pipes, nuts, bolts, horseshoes, handrails, straps for timber roof trusses, and ornamental ironwork.

There are two main types of timber roof trusses: closed, in which the bottom chord is horizontal and at the foot of the truss, and open, in which the bottom chords are raised to provide more open space, also known as raised bottom chord trusses.