Garage trusses

[Royalwapiti]

I might have messed up here when ordering my trusses. I used a "Design It" center from lumber yard.

I am building a basic 24x30 garage, have pad poured with 1 foot wall around it. I was planning 9 foot walls all around to give me a 10 foot ceiling.

I was tinkering with the "Design it" to see the different costs of scissor trusses, attic, energy heel trusses and plain trusses. I wanted basic trusses but I must have turned in my design number for the energy heel trusses. With no heel. The basic heel is 7" if you don't specify. They don't have any wall space under them.

I figured this out a few days after I ordered them and couldn't cancel my order.

My question is this. I can overcome the heel by shortening my sidewalls. But the end trusses are standard ends with no heel or overhang. So when they sit on the wall they won't be high enough or inline with roofline. So do I have to add the difference to the gable walls to get the end trusses up to same height? Is this standard?


Are end trusses always different than energy trusses? And how come there is no overhang on the end trusses, oversight in my tinkering with designs?

Thanks

 

[nmk_61802]

I may be mistaken, but looks like you have drop end gable trusses. You need to scab in the tails when you frame the look outs back to the standard truss. Pretty common framing.

 

[lowe.joshua51]

Look like you have pretty standard trusses. The end truss is shorter so you can build an overhang.

 

[Royalwapiti]

Ahhh, so I frame out from the second truss over the end truss to get my 12" overhang on gable end.

And build out the 2' overhang on bottom of end truss...

 

[coldh2o]

Yup.

 

[TRWham]

Just run the barge rafter all the way down even with the tails.

 

[Royalwapiti]

Thanks Guys, the delivery came today and I looked at those and thought WTF?

My framers come Friday, I just needed to get all the right stuff here so they can pound nails.

 

[OccupantRJ]

The dropped end trusses also make for a stronger rake overhang to prevent drooping over time. Check the measurements to see if the length of the lower member of the trusses matches your shop width like you desired.

 

[dfiler2]

Your end truss sets on the wall like the other trusses, the drop allows for framing your overhang. It is usually done when putting in a 2' overhang.