When run along the top of a truss that isn't flush with the ceiling (i.e., has open space above it), light will be shone up from the beam and reflected back off of the ceiling, creating a warm and ...

Floor Truss Floor trusses are built with 2x4s or 2x3s with a wide, stable surface that is easier to work on and around. They were designed to replace a standard floor joist made of dimensional lumber.

If you look closely at many new home construction sites, chances are you'll see them - lightweight engineered I-beams or trusses. They are made of composite wood material and are often used to ...

An Ingleside elementary school where inspectors found cracks in 30 roof trusses has been closed for the rest of the school year, forcing more than 600 children to stay home this week as the ...

Abner Yoder points to the beams supporting the roof overhead and notes that the trusses are 120 feet long. Employees of Stark Truss — the company Yoder started 50 years ago — assembled the ...

But it takes a six-man crew to put in beams, trusses, joists that will provide the skeleton of the structure. By Liz Atwood UPDATED: October 12, 2018 at 11:07 p.m.

These trusses were very long and rested on the foundation walls and two huge steel I-beams. Because she couldn’t find a plumber she trusted, she talked me into installing all the plumbing in ...

They have manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or trusses. The structures, each about the size of a sugar cube, quickly shrink when heated to about 540 degrees ...