We are adding a master bedroom and family room "wing" to our house. It will have a standard pitched roof. Do you recommend having the roof stick built with lumber or using pre-made roof trusses ...

Roof trusses are computer-designed for your house plans, size, roof pitch, etc. The most efficient use of lumber for a strong truss is a design made of many triangular sections.

April Wilkerson builds shop trusses and frames a patio roof with clear, helpful instructions.

You're never supposed to cut any member of a prefabricated roof truss, so how can you make a wide staircase opening that's perpendicular to the run of the trusses? It's easy.

When I watch new homes being built, all I see are trusses with all sorts of cross supports that make it impossible to have an attic. Can you have an attic with a modern truss? Is it hard to do?

Most new home construction now utilizes pre-engineered and built roof trusses, as opposed to traditional rafter framing to form the roof structure of the house. This type of framing construction ...

Students in an architecture class at Catholic University are building a replica of one of the Notre Dame roof trusses using medieval techniques.