Blaze
The Jeeper Reaper
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2005
- Location
- Wake Forest, NC
long time and I haven't done jack shit to this ceiling. The only thing I've really done in this time period is cut a hole and installed a new door where the right window is next to the middle door.
Today I was out and am thinking again about doing this, but just the area over that new garage door area. Just enough to get a 4-post storage lift in there. Be roughly 10ft. I am thinking of reworking the trusses to make it a free span design. I've seen it done a few times now on Garage Journal and a truss place I talked to said it should work no problem. They even came out and did measurements and all. I figure my roof slope is so high that the snow load is not a huge issue. I guess technically wind might be, but the shop is really shielded by trees. Plus it is only a 10ft span.
Today I was out and am thinking again about doing this, but just the area over that new garage door area. Just enough to get a 4-post storage lift in there. Be roughly 10ft. I am thinking of reworking the trusses to make it a free span design. I've seen it done a few times now on Garage Journal and a truss place I talked to said it should work no problem. They even came out and did measurements and all. I figure my roof slope is so high that the snow load is not a huge issue. I guess technically wind might be, but the shop is really shielded by trees. Plus it is only a 10ft span.