How To Repair Rotted Roof Trusses

The basics of the process are as follows.

How to repair rotted roof trusses.

The ends of the trusses are rotted out. They are a frame shaped trusses. The first thing you need to do is to assess the damage. 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.

Cover the seams between the old and new decking with bitumen tape. How to repair rotting garage trusses. Once you repair the hole in the roof plywood you need to seal up the seams and recover the roof. No supportive structural areas are experiencing rot.

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. Check the old trusses. The truss ends are covered by roof but their underside is exposed to the elements. The rotted part is not structural supportive appears to be just decorative.

This video shows from start to finish the repair of rotted endbeams on a house using the endrot system. If these have only small portions with rot you can repair using the boards. Inspect and assess the damaged section of timber and determine where it needs to be cut to prop the timber along it s length using suitably sturdy props such as acro props once supported cut off the damaged end leaving only solid un damaged timber now. 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.

If the old. Staple it to the roof decking or nail it with plastic capped roofing nails. The 4 sides of the bldg.