What Is a Scissor Truss?
A scissor truss is a very strong triangular-shaped roof framing component. Together with other trusses, a group of scissor trusses makes up a building’s roof rafters and ceiling framing. If you’re building a home, cabin, patio roof, or other structure, you may have encountered “scissor trusses” as an option for building the roof. “What is […]
House Framing Basics
The basic principles that go into sound house construction, with expert visual renderings A house has a skeleton that gives it support, shape, and a framework for outer coverings. This structure is called the frame. Though some new homes utilize steel framing, most houses built since the 1920s are made out of wooden beams, floor […]