Well designed roof truss computer generated model

So, Oh Best Beloved, how are you spending your summer?

We’re preparing everything we need to put a new roof on our house.

Ourselves.

Oy.

In looking at the rafters, we’ve realized that, while our house meets code, we’d like the option down the road of putting on a heavier style roof, such as one done with tile or slate. So, since we’re already ripping things apart, we’re thinking about retrofitting our current roof with extra trusses that would bear the extra weight.

Trusses are expensive.

But… in case you’re wondering why one bothers with the expense of hiring costly engineers to design roofing trusses, instead of having Joe Handyman slap them together…

Here’s the answer.

Computer generated model of collapsed roof from poorly designed roof truss

(Truss models generated by Michael, my very own beloved engineer!)