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Greetings Again! I gave up on my PE (still hasn't gotten back to me). I have been working with an architect who is one of the two designers on a multi million dollar building project under way where I work. I asked this architect if he would help me with my home project plan, to my delight he...

Gretings again, It is good to hear different peoples views and coming from different backgrounds makes for interesting perspectives. I am getting a little concerned about my PE, I am not sure if he is too busy or didn't take this little home project of mine serious. There is a wall inside the...

Greetings Miper, I would say half of this building has a suspended ceiling so I could get to the bottom members quite easily there and the other half I can probably get to with a little patience. Miper I handed the drawing to a P E, and at first glance he said that added weight was not the...

AJG III: The urgency for safety and need for completion leads me again to approach the local truss plant people and ask if they can advise me. The first time I asked them, their answer was it falls outside of the design parameters of their software or the build capability of their truss jig...

Greetings from SGC again, I still have no takers on the above situation. For a truss to fail, or collapse the joints have to move or flex. What can be done to strengthen the truss joints on existing factory trusses assembled with mimimum metal plates? Thanks again,

Greetings, As per the above truss concerns, I want to know what kind of glue should you use on the face of those trusses? THanks, J.

Greetings again, The question was "Why am I wanting to alter the original trusses?" I have added a room the lenght of my house. I want to add a center section to the roof to give it a barn style look (not a gambrel style). This would mean coming off the existing peak of my house and...

boo1, I wish I knew in my mind how I could handframe and still keep the current roof intact enough to keep rain out. I can't work quickly anymore so what I do may take a while to accomplish. Thanks, SGC

Thank you for your input on truss support. So good to have access to expertise! My situation is that I have a house that is occupied and need to add on a room which means I am going to have to have to tie onto the existing roof. Simply put I have a 24' wide house that I want to be a 36' wide...

Greetings, I am kinda new at this site so forgive me if I have this entered more than once. I want to beef up the load handling ability of some existing 2" x 4" syp trusses which are constructed with small metal plates. I would like to cut larger (much larger than the metal plates)...

Greetings, I want to beef up the load handling ability of some existing 2" x 4" syp trusses which are constructed with small metal plates. I would like to cut larger (much larger than the metal plates) pieces of plywood and glue and attach these new oversized wood truss plates over...

I have a conventional 2" x 4" wood truss on 16" center, 24' wide span no load bearing walls and building length 44'. I have built a 12'wide x 40'long addition to the east side of the house and have a 2" x 4" right triangle type truss on 16" center that is the same...

Thank you resqcapt19 & RajT for the timely and informative responce. This is my first visit to Eng-Tips and I can see I have tapped into a wealth of knowledge that I certainly will be viewing and using. Keep up the good work! SGC

Greetings, I have a Topaz Line noise Ultra Isolator 15KVA 208Y/120 in, 208Y/120 output supplying our computer center. Some of the UPS's and surge protectors are indicating a ground fault...

Greetings, I have a Topaz Line noise Ultra Isolator 15KVA 208Y/120 in, 208Y/120 output supplying our computer center. Some of the UPS's and surge protectors are indicating a ground fault condition. We are reading a voltage of 16 volts across the neutral and the equipment ground. This 16...