Bill Arden
Computer Programmer
I've ran out ideas on beefing up this roof.
It's a Hip style roof 20 feet by ~40 feet. The house was a garage once and there are no supports. it's just one large open space.
There is a 2x6 ridge beam and 2x6 corner beams.
The worst part seems to be the outer connections. The bottom 2x4's have a 2x4 nailed on top of it flat. and then the upper 2x4's are notched into that flat 2x4.
In need to increase the strength to handle 2 feet of snow load and am wondering where I would start in terms of having a engineer figure out what to do?
My structural engineering skills are not good enough to calculate out how much force the corners can handle.
It's a Hip style roof 20 feet by ~40 feet. The house was a garage once and there are no supports. it's just one large open space.
There is a 2x6 ridge beam and 2x6 corner beams.
The worst part seems to be the outer connections. The bottom 2x4's have a 2x4 nailed on top of it flat. and then the upper 2x4's are notched into that flat 2x4.
In need to increase the strength to handle 2 feet of snow load and am wondering where I would start in terms of having a engineer figure out what to do?
My structural engineering skills are not good enough to calculate out how much force the corners can handle.